Vatican still hasn’t approved Germany’s new synodal body, bishop says

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference has announced the bylaws for the German Synodal Conference are still under review in Rome.The Synodal Conference is intended to serve as a permanent body implementing the controversial German Synodal Way. The Vatican continues to review the bylaws of this new national-level body, which is to consist of bishops and non-bishops.“The statutes are currently being reviewed in Rome,” Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Münster said in an interview Sunday with the Kirche+Leben website. “I…