A press conference in Berlin on 20 January presented a report by a law firm commissioned by the Church. The mandate was to look into the handling of abuse cases by the archbishops of Munich between 1945 and 2019, including then-Cardinal Ratzinger. The Holy See Press Office d.
The Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. / Suicasmo via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Munich, Germany, Jan 20, 2022 / 05:49 am (CNA).A long-awaited report on the handling of abuse cases in Germany s Archdiocese of Munich and Freising has faulted Pope emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Reinhard Marx. The study issued on Thursday criticized the retired German pope s handling of four cases during his time in charge of the southern German archdiocese. Media reports had previously focused on his handling of a single case, that of a priest named Father Peter Hullermann.Benedict XVI, who strongly denies cover-up allegations, sent 82 pages of observations to investigators compiling the report. Westpfahl Spilker Wastl, the law firm that produced the study, presented the conclusions of the more than 1,000-page text at a live-streamed press conference on Jan. 20, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA s German-language news partner. The study s official title is "Report on.
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