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BERLIN — Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary today defended the pope’s prolonged silence on sexual abuse in Germany’s Roman Catholic Church, while more old cases surfaced in Benedict’s former ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Children were "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman ...

An ever-widening sexual abuse scandal involving Germany's Roman Catholic Church spilled into the heart of Pope Benedict XVI's homeland Friday when a former member of the prominent Regensburg boy's ...

After lunch today I walked down to the Central Station to pick up a copy of the Sueddeutsche. There must be more than 10,000 words on the child abuse scandal in the A section, many jarring details, ...

MUNICH — Pope Benedict XVI’s former diocese is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, the head of its new sex-abuse task force said today. “It is like a tsunami,” Elke ...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary on Tuesday defended the Holy Father’s prolonged silence on the flood of sexual abuse cases in Germany’s Roman Catholic Church – some of them in Benedict’s own ...