Diocese of Würzburg: Bishop issues retired priests service ban

The Würzburg bishop Franz Jung has forbidden a retired priest “to exercise priestly services with immediate effect because of the lack of necessary empathy in conversation with a relative of the victim and in view of his earlier behavior”. This was announced by the diocese on Tuesday evening. The priest had already been relieved of his duties in the diocese of Würzburg and retired in 2011. Sexual contacts with a young person admitted According to the message from the bishop’s ordinariate, the clergyman had admitted at the time that at the beginning of the 1980s …

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