Commentary: What President Joe Biden's recent announcement on the war in Yemen actually means hinges on how an ambiguous set of terms are defined, and who gets to define them.
The German bishops' conference elected a woman as general secretary during a virtual assembly that turned into a crisis meeting focused on the church's handling of sex abuse.
The head of the German Bishops' Conference said Feb. 25 that the country's Roman Catholic church is suffering from a "scandalous image" amid mounting anger over the Cologne archbishop's handling of a report on past sexual abuse by clergy, but he defended its overall record in addressing the issue.
The need for "deep, spiritual conversion of all members of the church stands out" as a key theme of the "instrumentum laboris," the working document for Australia's Plenary Council, due to begin in October, said one of its authors.
