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An increasing number of practicing German Catholics don’t want to fund the local Church’s controversial trajectory in the wake of the Synodal Way; but the only way to not pay the ‘church tax’ is to officially disaffiliate from the Catholic Church in Germany — and risk losing access to the sacraments.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Archbishop Stephan Burger of Freiburg im Breisgau said the changes will be made in the interest of maintaining the Church’s ‘credibility’ in the eyes of the general public.
Since 2012, critics note, the German bishops have denied the sacraments to those who opt out of paying Germany’s ‘church tax.’
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