Posts Tagged ‘Cardinal Rienhard Marx’

Sharp rise in Catholics leaving the Church in Germany

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014

The number of people leaving the Catholic Church in Germany rose sharply last year. The German bishops’ conference said 178,805 people left the Church in 2013, compared with 118,335 the previous year. In 2010, just short of 181,000 German people left the Church after a scandal about sexual abuse in the clergy. In March, Pope Read more