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Priests no more likely to commit sex abuse than other men, researcher says

Society: 13 Jul 11
Catholic priests, despite the community suspicion fuelled by widespread child sex abuse revelations, are no more likely to be paedophiles than other men, a top criminologist investigating Church abuse in Germany has said. READ »

Catholics quit church in droves last year

Society: 7 Apr 11
The number of Catholics quitting the church jumped 40 percent last year to 180,000 in the wake of persistent child sex abuse scandals, a media report said Thursday. READ »

Sex abuse victims reject Church payout offer

Society: 27 Jan 11
Victims of sexual abuse at Jesuit schools in Germany said Thursday that the Catholic Church’s offer of €5,000 in compensation is too low. READ »

Catholic abuse victims offered firm payout

Society: 24 Jan 11
Victims of sex abuse at Jesuit schools are finally being offered concrete compensation payouts one year after the abuse scandal was revealed, a Catholic official said Monday. READ »

Sex abuse victims still waiting for Catholic Church compensation

Society: 18 Nov 10
As the Vatican prepares for a historic meeting Friday to confront sex abuse by priests, Germany is struggling to hammer out a compensation plan in the wake of scandals that rocked the Church this year. READ »

Bishop Mixa attacked from within Church for dismissing victims

Society: 14 Apr 10
The Catholic school headmaster who first raised concerns about sex abuse in the Church back in January has lashed out at the embattled Bishop Walter Mixa, accusing him of being too dismissive of his alleged victim’s claims. READ »

Number of Jesuit abuse victims continues to climb

Society: 10 Apr 10
Some 10 weeks after abuse cases at Jesuit education institutions came to light, the number of victims continues to climb. Around 170 people are now believed to have been abused by Jesuits in Germany. READ »

Catholic abuse scandal hits famous boys' choir

Society: 5 Mar 10
The child sexual abuse scandal in Germany’s Catholic Church continued to spread on Friday as a spokesperson confirmed abuse at Regensburg’s cathedral school for their famous boys' choir, the Domspatzen. READ »

Minister accuses church of blocking child sex abuse investigation

National: 23 Feb 10
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday accused the Catholic Church of failing to cooperate with officials in the investigation of alleged child sexual abuse at Jesuit schools. READ »

Top Catholic bishop apologises for child abuse scandal

National: 22 Feb 10
Robert Zollitsch, the head of the German Bishop’s Conference (DBK), made a formal apology on Monday to the victims of widespread child abuse at Catholic schools and said there would be consequences. READ »

Bishop Mixa under fire for sexual abuse scandal comments

National: 19 Feb 10
Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa on Friday faced continuing criticism for claiming the sexual revolution was partially to blame for the widespread abuse of children at German Catholic schools. READ »

Two women implicated in Catholic school sex abuse scandal

National: 18 Feb 10
Allegations of sexual abuse at Catholic schools in Germany continued to spread on Thursday, with former students stepping forward to implicate two female authority figures. READ »

Damages for Catholic abuse could cost millions

National: 16 Feb 10
As more victims of sexual abuse by priests in the German Catholic church in the 1970s and 80s come forward, their lawyers said on Tuesday that compensation could reach into the millions. READ »

Catholic school sex abuse scandal widens

National: 15 Feb 10
A scandal over sexual abuse by Jesuit priests at an elite Berlin school in the 1970s and 80s widened on Monday as the college's rector said he expected more than 100 victims to come forward. READ »

At least 94 Catholic abuse cases suspected: report

Society: 6 Feb 10
The abuse scandal in Germany’s Catholic Church has continued to widen with at least 94 clerics and laypeople suspected of committing sexual abuse since 1995, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday. READ »

Third man confesses in Jesuit sex abuse scandal

National: 3 Feb 10
A scandal over sexual abuse by Jesuit priests in Germany in the 1970s and 80s snowballed Wednesday as a third teacher confessed, more victims came forward and further schools were implicated. READ »

Jesuit school sex abuse scandal spreads through Germany

National: 2 Feb 10
The scope of a child sex abuse scandal that was uncovered at an elite Berlin Catholic school last week has spread to other parts of Germany and beyond, the provincial superior for the country’s Jesuit order Stefan Dartmann has revealed. READ »

Former Jesuit teacher admits abuse

Society: 30 Jan 10
One of the former teachers and Jesuit priests accused of sexually abusing students at the elite Berlin high school Canisius College has confessed to the charges. READ »

Sex abuse revelations rock elite Catholic school in Berlin

Society: 28 Jan 10
The headmaster of an elite Jesuit high school in Berlin has sent a letter to former students asking them to come forward about systematic sexual abuse by priests there in the 1970s and 1980s. READ »

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