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Leo XIV went to the Catholic Institute of Paris for a meeting with members of the Provincial Synodal Assembly, catechumens, and neophytes Photo: Vatican Media

Gender Ideology•Local Church•Marriage and Family•Religious Freedom

Sex education in Catholic schools sparks a dispute between parents and the bishop of Hamburg, with the Vatican looking on

The latest controversy concerns an internal email dated August 28, 2026, from the archdiocese’s vicar general, Father Sascha-Philipp Geißler. He characterized the parents’ campaign as an attempt to create uncertainty and discord in school communities, and advised employees not to respond to the network’s messages or enter into debate

Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

Director of the Recollectio-Haus, a center founded by the monk Anselm Grün: We no longer accept abusers

She told katholisch.de that excluding abusers is necessary to protect other participants, some of whom may themselves be survivors and could be retraumatized by sharing a therapeutic setting with a perpetrator. The centre’s purpose, she stressed, is support and recovery—not treatment for people who have committed sexual abuse