Donald Snyder is a freelance writer who worked at NBC for 27 years as a news producer. He retired from the network in 2003.

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People are silhouetted against the Cologne Cathedral in Germany in 2016. (CNS/Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)

Cologne Archdiocese awaits potentially explosive report on abuse

Accountability
World
Mar 17, 2021

Set to be released March 18, the report could profoundly affect the fate of Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Germany: He has offered to resign if he is implicated in covering up sexual abuse.

Demonstrators protest Oct. 25, 2020, in front of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice, Poland, against the ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that imposes a near-total ban on abortion. Many young Polish women protested in November against

A 'time of crisis' for Poland's Catholic Church

Accountability
Politics
World
Jan 15, 2021

Scholars and others spoke with NCR about Polish alienation from the church, related to the hierarchy's alliance with the authoritarian ruling party, attacks on the LGBTQ community, and clergy sex abuse.

Demonstrations in Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 30 (Courtesy of Mateusz Dobrowolski)

For Catholic supporters, Poland's abortion protests about more than one issue

Politics
World
Nov 13, 2020

Protests by Polish women against the Law and Justice government and against the Catholic Church continue to gain momentum after a Oct. 22 ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal imposed an almost total ban on abortion.

Reformers' ideas gain momentum in German synodal way

World
Feb 19, 2020

Amid a shrinking Catholic Church in Germany, participants in the first session of synodal way meetings brought up questions about sexual morality, the ordination of women, and compulsory celibacy.