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A leading German cardinal and confidante of Pope Francis offered to resign on Friday over the Catholic Church s catastrophic mishandling of clergy sexual abuse cases.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx declared in an extraordinary gesture that the scandals had brought the church to a dead end .
The archdiocese of Munich and Freising, where Marx has served as archbishop since 2007, published his resignation letter to the pope online, in multiple languages, and the cardinal said Francis had given him permission to make it public. It is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades, the 67-year-old Marx wrote in the letter.