»Data Privacy in the Catholic Church at the Crossroads of the Freedom of Religious Societies and European Data Privacy Regulations«: With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the European Data Privacy framework has been revamped. This book describes the implementation of the European Data Privacy rules within the Catholic church. Against the backdrop of the German constitutional framework the author puts this in the context of the European Data Privacy legal framework and describes the specifics of the implementation within the Data Privacy regime of the Catholic church.