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The number of divorces in Germany has risen slightly for the first time since 2012. As the Federal Statistical Office announced in Wiesbaden on Wednesday, in 2019, by court order, about 149.000 marriages divorced.

The Federation of Catholic Youth in Germany has elected Daniela Hottenbacher as its new federal chairwoman and successor to Lisi Maier. In an interview, she reveals what impulses she wants to give to Catholic youth work in the future.

Working mothers in particular have a lot to do in the Corona crisis. Time for our economic system to change, finds one initiative. Unpaid housework is what makes paid gainful employment possible in the first place.

He went along the "synodal way": Now the chairmen of the inner-church synodal forum "Living in Successful Relationships – Living Love in Sexuality and Partnership" have paid tribute to the late theologian Eberhard Schockenhoff.

The spring plenary meeting of the German Bishops' Conference will only take place digitally this year because of the Corona pandemic. Among other things, the focus will be on a study day on leaving and remaining in the church.

The archdiocese of Freiburg must pay 10.8 million euros in arrears because of years of errors in the accounting of social security contributions for marginal employees. This is the result of a three-year audit of the German pension insurance scheme.

What are the results from Fulda? At the end of the fall plenary session of the German Bishops' Conference, the focus was on the consequences of a study on sexual abuse of children and adolescents.

Freiburg Auxiliary Bishop Christian Wurtz is open to dropping the term "Regens" to describe a seminary director. He calls himself a "leader" anyway, and most people no longer understand the word "Regens.

Paderborn Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker sees no alternative to the Synodal Way of the Catholic Church in Germany. "I am more confident than before the conference that in the end there can be really substantial resolutions."

One sat in pretrial detention, the other was proclaimed pope by mistake. This year, several prominent cardinals are dropping out as papal electors. Six purple bearers lose their right to vote. An overview: