The “Synodal Way” – in German: Synodaler Weg – is a controversial discussion process underway in Germany with the declared aim of addressing the Church’s clerical sexual abuse crisis by debating and ...

The German Synodal Way was designed from the outset to avoid legal sanctions while simultaneously creating “pressure” on the Church to change Catholic teaching, one of the founders of the process told ...

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Most German workers are familiar with the concepts of 'works councils' and 'co-determination,' but what are they? This week in Bonn, a conference of these uniquely German worker representative systems ...

German swimming pools are a metaphor for Germany — and for the challenge of integrating newcomers. Germany is one big swimming pool, trying to integrate the more than a million Middle Eastern refugees ...