The statement also said that under German law, only courts — not prosecutors — can issue legally binding determinations and ...

BERLIN — German police and prosecutors searched Catholic Church properties on Tuesday in connection with a probe of the archbishop of Cologne in western Germany over perjury allegations ...

St. Edward Church in Ashland held a Eucharistic Procession that proceeded down Cottage Street to the Foundations Plaza on Oct. 13. A short program was held. The procession, the first for the ...

The Cologne archdiocese, which has more Catholics than any other in Germany, about 1.8 million, has been in a state of crisis over those and other accusations related to the coverup of sexual ...

Some 44,772 Catholics in the Cologne archdiocese left in 2021, up from 17,281 in 2020, according to church figures. Nationally, the number of Catholics leaving the church has also risen dramatically.

A man prays in the empty world famous Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, on Sunday, March 15, 2020. The number of people formally leaving the Catholic Church in Germany increased significantly ...

Just opposite, 12th-century St Gereon, one of Cologne’s famous Romanesque churches, deepens the architectural interest. From €150 (£129).