The German Bishops Lead the Way—Out the Church Door, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, June 28, 2022

Undeterred by their own manifest pastoral failure, the Catholic bishops of Germany persist in their confidence that they know how to lead the universal Church to a brighter future—down their “Synodal Path.”

Even after years of steady decline, the latest statistics from Germany are shocking:

• Nearly 360,000 German Catholics renounced their faith last year;

• More than 2 million people have left the German Catholic Church in the past decade; and

• The number of German Catholics regularly attending Mass is less than half the number of those who have left since 2012 ….