Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics and the lay co-president of the Synodal Path, speaks during the third Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 5, 2022. (CNS photo/Julia Steinbrecht, KNA) Long consultations and many discussions – also with Rome – lie behind those responsible. In Fulda, bishops and lay people now want to lay the foundation stone for a new church body at national level. The Catholic Church in Germany may soon have a new national body made up of bishops and laypeople. “We are…
