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Geir Moulson - Associated Press
Due to various factors including scandal and a mandatory church tax, more than 400,000 people left the Catholic Church in Germany in the last year. However, departures have gone down since 2022.
A man kneels in a Catholic church in Germany
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Geir Moulson - Associated Press
More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, significantly higher than the previous record as the church wrestles with a long-running scandal over abuse by clergy.
In this Sunday, May 3, 2020 file photo people arrive for a church service at Germany's famous Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)
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Geir Moulson - Associated Press
Two envoys will work to get a “comprehensive picture of the complex pastoral situation in the archdiocese."
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Geir Moulson - Associated Press
At least 547 members of a prestigious Catholic boys' choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992, according to a report released Tuesday.
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, and Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, holds a copy of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), during a news conference for the document's release at the Vatican April 8, 2016. The exhortation is the concluding document of the 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on the family. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Nicole Winfield - Associated PressGeir Moulson - Associated Press
A statement from the German bishops' conference "opens the possibility of receiving the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist."