Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne expects the upcoming papal conclave to last longer than the relatively brief gathering that elected Pope Francis in 2013, the German prelate revealed Tuesday in ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated. VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has submitted his resignation to Pope Francis as leader of Germany’s Catholic archdiocese of Cologne. The ...

COLOGNE, Germany — The Vatican believes Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki and his vicar general, Msgr. Markus Hofmann, did not violate canon law in their funding of investigations and hiring of ...

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The Archdiocese of Berlin announced that it was temporarily suspending the work of its expert commission established to follow up on a legal report about sexual abuse in the archdiocese since 1946.

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