Germany’s most senior Catholic clergyman has urged voters to reject the AfD at state elections on Sunday, saying that voting for the party would be “un-Christian”. Ahead of elections in the eastern ...

Limburg Bishop Georg Batzing speaks during a March 3, 2020, news conference in Mainz after being elected as the new president of the German bishops' conference. Bishop Batzing, regarded as an advocate ...

Limburg Bishop Georg Batzing, president of the German bishops' conference, is pictured in a 2019 photo. (CNS/KNA/Harald Oppitz) The Catholic bishops in Germany have marked the upcoming 75th ...

Limburg Bishop Georg Batzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, is pictured in a March 5, 2020, photo. (Credit: Harald Oppitz, KNA via CNS.) Listen BONN, Germany — Catholic bishops in ...

The German bishops' plenary assembly began with urgent appeals for church reform and a reminder to heed admonitions from Pope Francis. Bishop Georg Batzing, conference president, called on all bishops ...

The head of the German bishops' conference responded to an open letter from more than 70 bishops from four continents and expressed surprise at some of what they said — and did not say. Bishop Georg ...

Georg Batzing, Bishop of Limburg and President of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks during a press conference at the end of the Fall Plenary Assembly at the Wilhelm Kempf House. Arne Dedert/dpa ...

Der Amtswechsel selbst war unspektakulär: Reinhard Kardinal Marx rückte einen Platz nach rechts. Dann nahm Georg Bätzing, der 58 Jahre alte Bischof von Limburg, zum ersten Mal auf dem Stuhl des ...

Rom/Limburg (dpa) - Der bisherige Trierer Generalvikar Georg Bätzing wird neuer Bischof in Limburg und damit Nachfolger von Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst. Papst Franziskus habe den 55-jährigen ernannt, ...

21.09.21 - Die Herbst-Vollversammlung der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz ist am Montag in der Barockstadt gestartet. Am frühen Dienstagmorgen fand schließlich der Eröffnungsgottesdienst im Hohen Dom zu ...