GERMANY
U.S. Catholic
Friday, March 2, 2012
By Catholic News Service
REGENSBURG, Germany (CNS) — The president of the German bishops’ conference welcomed progress in a national dialogue on the Catholic Church’s future, inaugurated in the wake of sexual abuse scandals.
“This process is on the right track — we’re all getting a chance to make our voices heard,” Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg said March 1, at a news conference marking the end of the bishops’ four-day meeting.
Archbishop Zollitsch said he hoped the dialogue would be advanced by the church’s Katholikentag festival in May and a national eucharistic congress in 2013.
The Dialogue on the State of the Church, launched in June by 30 German bishops and 300 invited clergy and lay representatives, is to run till 2015, with each year examining a church task, including liturgy and witness.
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