German bishops push their progressive agenda in Rome: an audience with Pope Leo XIV and the presentation of a synodal project to the Curia - ZENIT

German bishops push their progressive agenda in Rome: an audience with Pope Leo XIV and the presentation of a synodal project to the Curia - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 03.31.2026).- The long and often contentious German “Synodal Way” has now entered a ruling phase in Rome, where its future will be judged not by debate but by ecclesial law. On March 31, Heiner Wilmer, recently elected president of the German Bishops’ Conference, formally submitted to the Vatican the statutes of a proposed national Synodal Conference—an unprecedented body that would bring bishops and lay representativ…