Church history is being written in Munich today: According to Kathpress, the lawyers at the Westpfahl Spilker Wastl (WSW) law firm are presenting their more than 1,000-page abuse report on the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
A retired head of the church, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, takes a comprehensive position on the question of how he acted as Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger from 1977 to 1982 when it came to crimes against children by priests.
The focus is primarily on the case of repeat offender Peter H. from the West German diocese of Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia). After sexual offenses were recorded in his home country in the 1970s, he was sent to Munich in the early 1980s to undergo therapy.
At that time Ratzinger had been Archbishop for three years. In the same year, H. was reinstated in pastoral care and soon again encroached upon him. Those responsible in Munich and Essen now speak of a total of 29 people affected in several places. It was not until 2010 that H. was withdrawn from pastoral care. Today he lives under certain conditions in the diocese of Essen.
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