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hopefully that the church cannot punish crimes i mean this is not what the church is in the business of doing and the question now is where this opens the door for the church itself to start pulling in national authorities that is something we will see time goes by and the vatican reacts martin thank you very much religious affairs analyst mark. for. scientists in the u.s. are reporting success in helping patients with paralysis to stand and even take steps again it s all thanks to an electrical implant that zaps the spinal cord along with months of intense rehabilitation of course research is giving new hope to people suffering from spinal cord injuries. it s one step at a time jerry is able to walk again five years after an accident that left him paralyzed to be able to move. my legs and. to walk
bishops conference i must take responsibility for all the failures and for all the pain caused i must also ask for forgiveness personally and that was the head of german the german bishops conference apologizing on behalf of the institution and personally for the church s failure to address the martin what do you make of that statement what does his apology mean in practice i think in a way i mean the church should be well advised to essentially stop talking to the public about forgiveness and guilt and moral could take i mean i think that it s clear to everybody that has been paying attention and at least the figures that are actually brought forward from inside the church should talk to express contrition and to express you know sort of repugnance for the kind of crimes have been committed i think of the interesting thing about the statement the pope immediately said after the pennsylvania report was the use of the word crime and the word punishment these are crimes and they need to
just released a report detailing thousands of sexual abuse cases here in germany at the opening of the meeting of the country s bishops conference now the study found that priests had abused more than three and a half thousand children in teens in germany over seventy years the victims were mostly male and were mostly children well over one and a half thousand priests and other officials are accused of committing those crimes critics the study as well as its authors say the true scale of the abuse was probably far greater. threat. well for more on this let s bring in martin keyes d.w. is religious affairs analyst and has been dealing with this topic now for several years martin tell us how could crimes of this nature be committed for so long in this country in germany without anyone really catching wind of it i think mainly because we have seen many other cases in other countries we have something that