Germany
Rebooting Hildegard of Bingen
By Susan Garthwaite — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — Look past pop culture images to the spiritually wise Hildegard, help for our times.
Report: Nearly half of Jewish cemeteries in Europe are falling apart
By Yonat Shimron — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — The report, to be published in September by the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, found that 44% of the 1,700 cemeteries visited by surveyors were in urgent need of protection.
If Rabbi Leo Baeck could survive Theresienstadt, we can survive COVID.
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 6, 2021
You think that clergy had it bad during COVID? Try Theresienstadt.
Germany gets 1st military rabbi in over a century
By Associated Press — June 22, 2021
(AP) — The German government in 2019 approved a proposal by the Central Council of Jews to restore religious counseling for Jews serving in the armed forces.
“In the Heights” is more Jewish than it seems
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 13, 2021
(RNS) — Your summer just got instantly better. Prepare to smile and weep.
Pope rejects German cardinal’s resignation, urges reform
By Associated Press — June 10, 2021
ROME (AP) — Francis refused to accept the resignation and told Marx in a letter he must continue as archbishop.
“Dead end”: German cardinal offers to quit over church abuse
By Nicole Winfield and Kirsten Grieshaber — June 4, 2021
BERLIN (AP) — Cardinal Reinhard Marx, offered to resign as archbishop Friday over the Catholic Church's mishandling of clergy sexual abuse cases, declaring that the church had arrived at “a dead end."
German Catholics to bless gay unions despite Vatican ban
By Kirsten Grieshaber — May 10, 2021
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Catholic progressives are offering same-sex blessings at services in about 100 churches this week in defiance of a recent Vatican pronouncement against them.
Germany celebrates a historic milestone of Jewish culture — while looking forward
By Ken Chitwood — May 6, 2021
BERLIN (RNS) — As their community turns 1,700 this year, Germany’s Jews want to cast off the bleak history of the Holocaust in favor of a ‘living Judaism.’
RNS Weekly News Quiz: April 29, 2021
By Emily Churchill — April 30, 2021
(RNS) — Test your knowledge of current events in the world of religion.
What are the origins of Lent?
By Joanne M. Pierce — February 22, 2021
(The Conversation) — The word “Lent” has Germanic roots referring to springtime. But not much is known about its origins as the religious observance.
Dream of 3 faiths worshipping in one building meets reality in Berlin
By Ken Chitwood — February 15, 2021
(RNS) — Its designers and leaders hope it will be used by Jewish, Christian and Muslim members as a place to pray, worship, gather and, perhaps above all, host a dialogue among their respective religions and with society at large.
Berlin’s debate over Pius XII has hit the streets
By Tom Heneghan — February 10, 2021
(RNS) — German historians have asked Berlin authorities to rename a street honoring Pius because he allegedly failed to denounce the Holocaust.
German bishops’ summit considers women and lay roles as answer to abuse crisis
By Claire Giangravé — February 1, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — While the summit officially affects only Germany, the bishops' discussions will likely have consequences for the global church.
German teens go to Israel to atone for their families’ Holocaust history
By Michele Chabin — January 22, 2021
(RNS) — March of Life, a German movement that actively atones for the Holocaust through volunteerism, fights anti-Semitism through activism.
