BERLIN – German lawmakers voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage after a short but emotional debate, bringing the country in line with many of its Western peers. Though Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, has instructed priests and full-time pastoral staff to introduce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Same-sex couple Karl Kreil and Bodo Mende get married at a civil registry office, becoming Germany's first married gay couple ...

“Today was an important milestone in dismantling discrimination and the chancellor is pleased about that… but same-sex marriages are not a goal of this government.” Angela Merkel, Credit – ...

‘As the Catholic Church, we will now increasingly face the challenge of convincingly presenting the vitality of the Catholic understanding of marriage,’ said Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin. The ...