Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki at a conference in Cologne (2021)
Pedophilia in the church of Munich, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki offers his resignation to Pope Francis: involved in the accusations of concealment
The effects of the pedophilia scandal in the German church do not stop. The German cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki announced that he had offered his resignation to Pope francescohaving been criticized in the past for not having made it public a sexual abuse report in the Church.
The Pope said he will give one reply in due timethe cardinal said. Waiting for the response, Meanwhile, Woelki will return to his duties as archbishop of Cologne, after five months of leave approved by the Vatican, which had criticized his handling of the sexual abuse scandal.
In 2020, Woelki he had decided not to publish a document of the law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl on the management of cases of abuse by priests who emerged in the diocese of Cologne. The cardinal had mentioned legal reasons for not disseminating the document, which he himself commissioned. A subsequent report revealed hundreds of cases Of alleged sexual abuse on minors in the archdiocese of Colony.
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