• Another 400000 people left Germany's Catholic Church last year, but the pace slowed from 2022.
  • With about 25 million members, the Roman Catholic Church in unified Germany is organized into five archdioceses, eighteen dioceses...
  • In the crisis-hit Archdiocese of Cologne, which has the most Catholics of Germany’s 27 dioceses, 40,913 people formally left the Church last year, compared to...
  • Cologne Cathedral Cologne Cathedral, German Kölner Dom, Roman Catholic cathedral church, located in the city of Cologne, Germany.
  • Pope Francis has expressed deep reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany.
  • The general tactic by the leadership of both Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany was caution with respect to protest and compromise with the...
  • The issue of declining church membership is not isolated to the Catholic Church in Germany.
  • German Catholics defy Vatican with blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples The Youth Church in Würzburg, Germany, May 10, 2021. /
  • “The figures for 2021 show the profound crisis in which we find ourselves as the Catholic Church in Germany.