A group of prominent German Catholics called on February 3 for the ordination of women and ending mandatory priestly celibacy among other changes to Catholic sexual morality. The group of nine, including prominent German priests and theologians, made their demands in an open letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx, published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The signatories of the letter demand a new assessment of the church’s teaching on homosexuality, permission for the ordination of women and a reordering of church structure, among other changes.