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The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, a new study has found. More than 400,000 people in the European country left the church in 2023, according to statistics presented by the German bishops' conference in Bonn on June 27.The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, a new study has found. More than 400,000 people in the European country left the church in 2023, according to statistics presented by the German bishops' conference in Bonn on June 27.
"The figures are alarming. They show that the church is in a wide-ranging crisis," Bishop Bätzing said. His own diocese saw 13,000 people leave the church in 2023 -- 2,000 fewer than a year earlier, The Associated Press reported. For 40 years, the 71-year-old from Bad Nenndorf, who once considered a vocation to the priesthood, worked as a pastoral counselor for the Catholic Church, but today he feels"homelessly Catholic," quoting a book title by Regina Laudage-Kleeberg that has since become a catchphrase.
Archbishop Stephan Burger of Freiburg, commenting on the survey, announced that the church will continue to change, including structurally."But as long as we are on the side of the people, the Church will continue to exist in a largely secular world," Archbishop Burger said.Dominik Blum, parish representative in the Catholic parish community of Artland in the Diocese of Osnabrück, wrote in his katholisch.
"We must prepare ourselves for the fact that several hundred thousand people will leave the church in the coming years," said Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the lay-run Central Committee of German Catholics.
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