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Sex Abuse in the German Church

Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille, Catholic World Report

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

The new study—titled “Child Sex Abuse by Catholic Priests, deacons, and Male Members of Religious Orders in the Authority of the German Bishops’ Conference”—reviews over 38,000 files from 1946 to 2014. Germany right now is garnering many headlines for its apparently “progressive” and “synodal” path, while being highly retrograde in dealing with sex abuse.

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