German cardinal offers to quit over Church’s abuse failure
An advocate for change, Reinhard Marx has often clashed with both the Vatican and more conservative German clerics
Updated: June 04, 2021 12:56 PM GMT
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In this file photo taken on February 01, 2017 Cardinal Reinhard Marx holds the laudatory speech for the German Chancellor who was given the Eugen-Bolz-Award at the New Castle in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany. (Photo: THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP)
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, one of Germany s leading Catholic bishops, said June 4 that he had offered Pope Francis his resignation over the church s institutional and systemic failure in its handling of child sex abuse scandals.
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Updated June 4, 2021
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, addresses a press conference in Munich, southern Germany, on June 4, 2021, after he had offered Pope Francis his resignation over the church’s “institutional and systemic failure” in its handling of child sex abuse scandals. AFP
One of Germany’s leading Catholic bishops, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said Friday he had offered Pope Francis his resignation over the church’s “institutional and systemic failure” in its handling of child sex abuse scandals.
The stunning decision came after the church in Germany, like in many places elsewhere, was shaken by allegations of wide-ranging abuse by clergymen against minors.
The head of the Catholic Church in Germany has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared "responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse" by church officials.
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