The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Germany wants to create a Synodal Council out of both clerics and lay people, but the Vatican has declared its rejection of this plan.
"Something special happened here," the president of the Irish bishops' conference said at the end of a continental assembly of European Catholics, held as part of the pope's process to reinvigorate the Synod of Bishops.
LIMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - German politicians and church leaders mourned the death of former Pope Benedict on Saturday, hailing his importance to hi.
LIMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - German politicians and church leaders mourned the death of former Pope Benedict on Saturday, hailing his importance to his homeland as Germany's first pontiff in 1,000 years.