AC Wimmer

AC Wimmer

AC Wimmer is Editor-in-Chief of CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner.

Articles by AC Wimmer

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, at the Vatican in April 2015. Bohumil Petrik/CNA.

Cardinal Kasper warns German synodal way risks 'breaking its own neck'

Jun 22, 2022 / 14:40 pm

A theologian considered close to Pope Francis has warned that the German Synodal Way is at risk of “breaking its own neck” if it does not heed the objections raised by a growing number of bishops around the world.

Armin Laschet, now the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, speaks at the party headquarters in Berlin, Jan. 11, 2017. Credit: photocosmos1/Shutterstock.

German Social Democrats attack Catholic faith of potential Angela Merkel successor's aide

Aug 11, 2021 / 10:42 am

An anti-Catholic video targeting the election campaign of a potential successor to Angela Merkel has drawn criticism from bishops and politicians in Germany amid growing concerns about a wider erosion of religious freedom in an increasingly secular Europe.