CNA Staff, Dec 11, 2020 / 09:00 am
A German cardinal announced Friday that he would ask Pope Francis to review his handling of a clerical abuse case.
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne said Dec. 11 that he would seek the pope's verdict on the decisions he took regarding an accused priest in 2015.
"In order to clarify the canonical accusations made against me, I ask the Holy Father to examine this question," he said in a statement on the website of Cologne archdiocese.
"The fact remains: Failures in dealing with sexualized violence must be disclosed, regardless of who they were raised against. This includes me too."