Germany’s Catholic Church was Tuesday due to confess to and apologies for thousands of cases of sexual abuse against children, part of a global scandal heaping pressure on the Vatican. The conference head, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said earlier this month that bishops were “deeply depressed, shaken and ashamed before the reality of sexual abuse of minors within the Catholic Church”. Systemic abuseThe Catholic Church has since the 1980s been battered by scandals of rape, sexual abuse, pedophilia and physical abuse. Joerg Schuh of the Berlin-based Tauwetter centre for victims of sexual abuse told AFP TV that “the Catholic Church has a global problem”. Major abuse cases in Germany have included a Berlin elite Jesuit school which admitted to systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s.

Source: Egypt Independent September 25, 2018 10:41 UTC