Andreas Wailzer

Archbishop Laurent Ulrich called on Catholics to 'continue to pray, hope and act creatively and consistently.'

Local German politician Suraj Mailitafi confirmed what conservatives have argued that immigrants would choose to go to war for their native country over their adopted home nation.

Bishop Stefan Oster warned that as Christian influence fades, the concept of human dignity ‘can no longer be based on being created in God's image,' leading to a rise in LGBT identification.

Joe Schmid, a former agnostic, says he could no longer dismiss the evidence supporting the Church after studying miracles ‘that seem to vindicate distinctive Catholic doctrines.'

Pro-LGBT Bishop Gerhard Feige said that he is ‘very skeptical' of evangelization methods and that it is not his ‘top priority' for the Church to have more members.

‘The West is overtaken not with the persecution of blood and with arms, but an interior persecution marked by isolation, depression, loneliness, and anxiety,' Abp. Cordileone said.

Poland's Catholic bishops criticized new education policies cutting religious instruction to one hour weekly while introducing a ‘Health Education' subject promoting contraception.

The bishop of Texcoco issued a decree prohibiting laypeople who are not formal acolytes from presiding over funeral rites, liturgies of the Word, and other acts reserved to ordained clergy.

Cardinal Sarah said that the Church ‘cannot wage war' on Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass, calling it ‘a short-sighted and entirely ideological attitude, therefore not pastoral and not Christian.'

The Left Party in Germany grouped ‘evangelical' Christians and jihadists as religious fundamentalists, vowing to ‘resolutely combat' both.