Published Date: March 12, 2010

Tags: Church in Germany, priestly celibacy, sex scandal

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg

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Amid repots of clergy sex scandals in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI met with the head of German bishops today, a day after the Vatican reaffirmed the values of priestly celibacy.

The meeting with Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg was planned as a traditional review of the recent spring gathering of Germany’s bishops.

But the two Germans reportedly focused on the wave of scandals over predator priests and teachers that has now engulfed 19 of Germany’s 27 dioceses, AFP said.

The German scandals are among several to have rocked the Catholic Church lately, notably in Ireland last year, and now Austria and The Netherlands as well.

Germany’s shock revelations began in late January when an elite Jesuit school in Berlin admitted systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s.

The allegations also entangled the pope’s brother Father Georg Ratzinger, who ran Regensburg cathedral’s thousand-year-old choir for 30 years. The boarding schools implicated includes the one to which the choir is attached.

Father Ratzinger, 86, said that the alleged sexual abuse in the 1950s and 1960s — before his time — was “never discussed.”

Most priests concerned are not expected to face criminal charges because the alleged crimes took place too long ago, but there have been growing calls for a change in the law and for the Church to pay compensation, the report said.

Source:  Pope meets German bishop over abuse scandal

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