Church – Munich – Marx comments on the Munich abuse report – Bavaria
Church – Munich:Marx comments on the Munich abuse report
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Munich (dpa) – One week after the shocking abuse report for the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, the eyes are on Archbishop Reinhard Marx. In a press conference today, the cardinal wants to comment on the results of the study that his diocese commissioned from the Westpfahl Spilker Wastl (WSW) law firm. The study accuses Marx and his predecessors in the office of archbishop, Cardinal Friedrich Wetter and Joseph Ratzinger, of misconduct in dealing with cases of abuse and assumes at least 497 victims and 235 alleged perpetrators – and a much larger number of unreported cases.
Marx was not present when the report was presented on Thursday last week and only made a brief statement afterwards. “I am shocked and ashamed,” he said a week ago. Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict, had admitted that he had not told the truth in one point in his statements for the report – this was due to an error in the “editorial processing” of his statements.
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