Report on Cologne cardinal’s PR strategy prompts renewed controversy
A recent report on the public relations strategy used by Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki during a clerical sex abuse scandal has provoked renewed controversy.
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by bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Germany, News | 0 |
A recent report on the public relations strategy used by Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki during a clerical sex abuse scandal has provoked renewed controversy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, German bishops, German Church, German synodal path, Germany, News | 0 |
Archdiocesan Catholics who responded to a survey preparing for the 2023 worldwide Synod of Bishops on synodality called for some big changes in the church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne Catholics, Germany, News, Synod of Bishops, synodality, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Archdiocesan Catholics who responded to a survey preparing for the 2023 worldwide Synod of Bishops on synodality called for some big changes in the church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Archdiocese of Cologne, Associated Press, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, News | 0 |
A prominent Catholic archbishop who faced strong criticism for his handling of the church’s sexual abuse scandal in Germany said Wednesday that he has offered his resignation to Pope Francis following a “spiritual timeout” granted by the pontiff.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German Church, Germany, News | 0 |
A German court on Friday convicted a Catholic priest of sexual abuse of children in cases that spanned many years and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Archdiocese of Cologne, Associated Press, Bishop Georg Bätzing, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, News | 0 |
The head of the German Bishops’ Conference expressed doubts that the planned return of Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki as archbishop of Cologne will help the diocese overcome a crisis sparked by the church’s handling of sex abuse allegations.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Bishop accountability, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clergy sex abuse crisis, Court cases, German bishops, Germany, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
In the first testimony ever given by a German Catholic bishop in a court case on abuse, Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hesse admitted having made mistakes in the case of an offending priest on trial in the Cologne regional court.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 8, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, audit, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, Clerical Abuse, Congregation for Bishops, Germany, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Earlier this week the troubled German Archdiocese of Cologne announced that the Vatican has agreed to conduct an external audit into its contracts once the archbishop of the diocese returns from a papal-mandated sabbatical.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | abuse cover-up, Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Germany, News | 0 |
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Germany, faces further pressure following the announcement that contracts he awarded to lawyers and communications consultants will be investigated under canon law.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 18, 2021 | abuse cover-up, Archdiocese of Cologne, Associated Press, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, News | 0 |
The Catholic archdiocese of Cologne, Germany held a service of penance Thursday for cases of sexual abuse by clergy, saying the ritual was not an absolution for the perpetrators but a “confession of guilt.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 30, 2021 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic Church (Germany), deficits, German synodal path, lead, Liturgy, News, News Analysis, Papacy, Summorum Pontificium, Vatican workers | 0 |
The stars have aligned to suggest that Pope Francis faces a series of agonizing choices. Each represents an object lesson in why it’s never easy being in charge, especially of a complex global institution with a following of 1.3 billion highly diverse people and expectations of being a moral exemplar.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 29, 2021 | Archdiocese of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic Church (Germany), Church in Europe, clerical seuxal abuse, Germany, lead, News | 0 |
The Vatican has launched an apostolic visitation into the Archdiocese of Cologne following months of public fallout over the reported mishandling of clerical abuse cases.
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