Pope Benedict Abuse Report
Title: Potentially explosive report will document handling of sex abuse in Pope Benedict’s former diocese
Author: CNS Staff
Publisher: America Magazine
Date: 04JAN2022
MUNICH (CNS) — In mid-January, the law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl is scheduled to publish a report into the handling of clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.The potentially explosive aspect is that three of the highest-ranking officials are still alive: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—now retired Pope Benedict XVI—and Cardinals Friedrich Wetter and Reinhard Marx, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA.
The investigation followed two years of research and covers the period from 1945 to 2019, centering on who knew what about sexual abuse and when, and what action they took, if any, KNA reported.
Much of the public interest is focused on the retired pope’s 1977-1981 tenure as archbishop of Munich. The case concerns the assignments of a priest accused of a particularly large number of offenses.
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