From
Christian Wernicke, Cologne
It is a delicate role that Rainer Maria Woelki fills this Tuesday afternoon. Cologne’s cardinal is summoned as a witness in his own case; in a so-called party-interrogation he must against allegations of Picture resist that, against his worst knowledge of the sexual tendencies of a Düsseldorf priest, he nevertheless promoted him. Almost everything is at stake for the churchman – because without honor he would be nothing.