Bavaria: Autumn Plenary Assembly of the Freising Bishops' Conference ends

Munich (dpa / lby) - The autumn plenary assembly of the Freising Bishops' Conference is coming to an end in Munich today.

Bavaria: Autumn Plenary Assembly of the Freising Bishops' Conference ends

Munich (dpa / lby) - The autumn plenary assembly of the Freising Bishops' Conference is coming to an end in Munich today. Its chairman, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, will then provide information on the results of the deliberations.

The Catholic bishops in Bavaria wanted to deal with topics such as ecumenism and youth work at the meeting. It should also go to schools, religious education and Catholic universities in the Free State.

The background is above all the financial situation of the Bavarian dioceses, which all have to save significantly in times of falling church tax revenues. There are different plans for this in the individual dioceses. The Archdiocese of Munich, for example, has announced that it will primarily look at real estate with the question of whether it can also be used differently than before.

Even if they are not on the agenda, the topics that are currently affecting the Catholic Church in Germany as a whole should also play a role at the assembly: the synodal path reform process and the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

The provisional head of the Bavarian Catholic Office, Bettina Nickel, will also be present at the press conference at the end of the meeting. She had taken over the task from Prelate Lorenz Wolf after he had declared his resignation in the spring as a consequence of his role in dealing with cases of abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. The office is considered the interface between politics and the Catholic Church in the Free State. According to the German Bishops' Conference, there were around six million Catholics in Bavaria in 2021.