Vatican rejects German Church's plans for laity to preach homilies, conduct baptisms (CNA)

Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has written a seven-page letter to Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, head of the German Bishops’ Conference, rejecting recent resolutions of the German Synodal Way on lay homilies and lay baptisms.