Abuse scandal: “SZ”: Search warrant against Munich Archdiocese
It is an unprecedented process: In the abuse scandal of the Catholic Church, the public prosecutor’s office obtains a search warrant against the Munich Archdiocese. An action with symbolic power.
It was “the first and long overdue search by a public prosecutor’s office with a judicial search warrant,” said canon lawyer Thomas Schüller of the dpa and spoke of a “turning point in the relationship between state judiciary and the churches”. Schüller: “Finally the constitutional state is showing its teeth to the Catholic Church and thus also to the Protestant Church.”
Since the publication of a sensational report on sexual violence in the Archdiocese more than a year ago, the Munich I public prosecutor’s office has been investigating. After the presentation of the study in January 2022, the authority announced that it would examine more than 40 cases of alleged misconduct by church leaders in dealing with abusers.
“They only concern ecclesiastical leaders who are still alive and were transmitted in a highly anonymous form,” it said at the time. The study assumes at least 497 victims and 235 alleged perpetrators – and a much larger number of unreported cases.
https://24hoursworlds.com/politics/372269/
It is an unprecedented process: In the abuse scandal of the Catholic Church, the public prosecutor’s office obtains a search warrant against the Munich Archdiocese. An action with symbolic power.
It was “the first and long overdue search by a public prosecutor’s office with a judicial search warrant,” said canon lawyer Thomas Schüller of the dpa and spoke of a “turning point in the relationship between state judiciary and the churches”. Schüller: “Finally the constitutional state is showing its teeth to the Catholic Church and thus also to the Protestant Church.”
Since the publication of a sensational report on sexual violence in the Archdiocese more than a year ago, the Munich I public prosecutor’s office has been investigating. After the presentation of the study in January 2022, the authority announced that it would examine more than 40 cases of alleged misconduct by church leaders in dealing with abusers.
“They only concern ecclesiastical leaders who are still alive and were transmitted in a highly anonymous form,” it said at the time. The study assumes at least 497 victims and 235 alleged perpetrators – and a much larger number of unreported cases.
https://24hoursworlds.com/politics/372269/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
