Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Title: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI provided 82 pages of information for upcoming clerical abuse report
Author: KNA International Staff
Publisher: America Magazine
Date: 14JAN2022
Munich/Berlin (KNA) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has provided extensive answers—in all totaling 82 pages—to lawyers’ questions concerning sexual abuse cases in the Munich archdiocese, the mass-circulation newspaper Bild reported Friday. The lawyers’ queries were part of their investigation for a tensely awaited experts’ report set to be unveiled next Thursday.
“He welcomes the reappraisal in Munich as well as the publication of the report,” the newspaper cited Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, as saying. Archbishop Gaenswein added that the former pope had taken the fate of the abuse victims “very much to heart.”
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