Catholic dioceses and religious orders in Germany have paid out around 32.9 million euros to victims of sexual abuse in the past two years. This emerges from the annual report of the Independent Commission for Recognition Services (UKA) presented in Bonn on Friday.This commission was approved by the German bishops in autumn 2020 and has been active since January 1, 2021. It is staffed by eleven external experts chaired by the former judge at the Cologne Higher Regional Court, Margarete...
Allegations of abuse, Corona swearers, hell preachers and Hitler's "Mein Kampf" on the cell phone - the Archdiocese of Vaduz in Liechtenstein is a gathering place of arch-reactionary priests, mainly from Germany.from Uwe Ritzer, VaduzThe pastor denies any guilt. In November 2019, the police found Hitler's "Mein Kampf", contact details of right-wing extremists and child pornographic material on his mobile phone. The Liechtenstein judiciary is investigating him on suspicion of sexual child abuse. He has even set up a website...
The diocese of Eichstätt has suspended a clergyman after allegations of sexual abuse. The man from the Eichstätt district was released from pastoral and school work, the Catholic diocese announced on Friday. In addition, a "residence ban for his previous place of residence and work" was pronounced and a preliminary investigation under canon law was initiated.According to the investigating public prosecutor's office in Ingolstadt, the allegation is for sexual abuse of young people and sexual abuse of wards. A suspected...
Normally, nothing gets out when the German Catholic bishops meet every two months for their so-called permanent council in the Himmelpforten monastery near Würzburg. This time, however, there was an urgent need to speak. The reason was a new blue letter from Rome, which was again directed against the synodal path, the German reform debate between clergy and laity. This brings the dispute between Germany and the Vatican to a head shortly before the decisive and last synodal assembly in...
The Munich abuse report was published a year ago. Whether the archdiocese is serious about the workup, it can prove next week. source site
The abuse scandal has occupied the Catholic Church for a long time. However, the cases only gradually trickled into public attention, first in the mid-1980s in the USA and in the late 1990s Ireland. There, the pedo-criminal priest Brendan Smyth, for example, was able to abuse children for more than 40 years - there are around 90 victims. Smyth died in prison in 1997. High-ranking clerics in Ireland knew about it and did nothing, and in the years that followed...
It must have been a terrible ordeal for the 16-year-old. In her presence, her relatives discussed how the young person should be killed because she is said to have violated religious rules - she herself had to write a farewell letter for this. The murder was to be disguised as a suicide. This scenario describes the indictment against the victim's father and adult brother. The two 44 and 23-year-old men have had to answer to the Augsburg district court since...
from Oliver Meiler, RomeSecretaries are rarely stars. This is due to the function, it usually unfolds quietly and willingly in the shadow of another person, who in turn is in the light. source site
And have served: St. Barbara was once built so that soldiers could go to war with a blessing. Today the church, which was officially consecrated a hundred years ago, is supposed to be a place of art - and a kind of living room. A few weeks ago the clock in St. Barbara, which is located opposite the altar in the gallery, was finally repaired. Every hour now she emits a warm, golden sound. However, not quite on time. "The...
Australian Cardinal George Pell has died in Rome at the age of 81. Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher confirmed his death on Wednesday night on his Facebook page. Pell's former Archdiocese confirmed the authenticity of the message to the German Press Agency.For years, under Pope Francis, Pell was the number three in the Vatican and the highest-ranking minister in the history of the Catholic Church to be convicted of child molestation. However, in 2020, Pell was acquitted on appeal after...
