German bishop

By AFP
June 05, 2021

Berlin: One of Germany’s leading Catholic bishops, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said on Friday he had offered Pope Francis his resignation over the church’s "institutional and systemic failure" in its handling of child sex abuse scandals.

"It is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades," said Marx in a letter to the pope dated May 21 and published Friday by his archdiocese in Munich.