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Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves and settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide
9 months, 1 week ago

Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves and settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a book-length interview published Tuesday. “They told me afterward that they didn’t want a ‘foreign’ pope,” — in other words, a non-Italian one — Francis …

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Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves, settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide
9 months, 1 week ago

Pope exposes confidential details of past conclaves, settles scores with Pope Benedict XVI’s aide

LA Times  

Pope Francis, left, and Pope Benedict XVI greet each other in 2017. The confidential revelations are contained in “The Successor: My Memories of Benedict XVI,” in which the Argentine pope reflects on his relationship with the late German pope and settles some scores with Benedict’s longtime aide. Francis said Benedict’s would be “the last wake in which the body of …

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Statue of late German Cardinal Franz Hengsbach will be removed after allegations of sexual abuse
1 year, 3 months ago

Statue of late German Cardinal Franz Hengsbach will be removed after allegations of sexual abuse

The Independent  

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German police search church properties in probe of Cologne archbishop over perjury allegations
1 year, 6 months ago

German police search church properties in probe of Cologne archbishop over perjury allegations

Associated Press  

BERLIN — German police and prosecutors searched Catholic Church properties on Tuesday in connection with a probe of the archbishop of Cologne in western Germany over perjury allegations, authorities said. The archdiocese of Cologne has been shaken by ongoing allegations against the cardinal since 2020, when Woelki, citing legal concerns, kept under wraps a report he commissioned on how local …

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The AP Interview takeaways: Pope decries expanding gun use
1 year, 11 months ago

The AP Interview takeaways: Pope decries expanding gun use

Associated Press  

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis lamented that the use of guns by civilians to defend themselves is becoming a “habit.” In an interview on Tuesday with The Associated Press, the pontiff, who has frequently criticized the arms industry, was asked about the large number of guns in civilian hands and frequent massacres in the United States. Francis said he wants …

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Cardinal calls for Vatican reprimand over sexuality remarks
2 years, 9 months ago

Cardinal calls for Vatican reprimand over sexuality remarks

Associated Press  

ROME — Cardinal George Pell has called for the Vatican’s doctrine office to intervene and reprimand two leading European Catholic churchmen who called for changes in Catholic teaching on sexuality and homosexuality. But in an interview with KTV, the German Catholic television agency, Pell said the church cannot follow “the changing dictats of contemporary secular culture” and must stay true …

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Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults retired pope
2 years, 11 months ago

Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults retired pope

Associated Press  

BERLIN — A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. “Sadly, we see these unsavory actions and inactions surface years later after lengthy silence by church officials and painful memories harbored by victims.” Benedict’s longtime secretary, Monsignor Georg …

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Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults retired pope Benedict XVI
2 years, 11 months ago

Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults retired pope Benedict XVI

Firstpost  

When the church abuse scandal first flared in Germany in 2010, attention swirled around another case, that of a pedophile priest whose transfer to Munich to undergo therapy was approved under Ratzinger in 1980 Berlin: A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop …

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Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults retired Pope Benedict XVI
2 years, 11 months ago

Report on sexual abuse in German diocese faults retired Pope Benedict XVI

LA Times  

A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. “Sadly, we see these unsavory actions and inactions surface years later after lengthy silence by church officials and painful memories harbored by victims.” Benedict’s longtime secretary, Monsignor Georg Gänswein, said …

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‘Dead end': German cardinal offers to quit over church abuse
3 years, 7 months ago

‘Dead end': German cardinal offers to quit over church abuse

Associated Press  

BERLIN — A leading German cardinal and confidant of Pope Francis, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, offered to resign Friday over the Catholic Church’s “catastrophic” mishandling of clergy sexual abuse cases, declaring 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 …

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Top Catholic cardinal admits church destroyed documents on clergy sexual abuse
5 years, 10 months ago

Top Catholic cardinal admits church destroyed documents on clergy sexual abuse

CNN  

Rome CNN — In a remarkable admission, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Saturday that documents that could have contained proof of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church were destroyed or never drawn up. “Such standard practices will make it clear that it is not transparency which damages the church, but rather the acts of abuse committed, the lack of …

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