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	German Reactions By Leon J. Podles Dialogue March 15, 2010 http://www.podles.org/dialogue/german-reactions-295.htm Although the abuse that has been revealed in Germany is neither as widespread or as deeply corrupt as the abuse that was revealed in the U.S. and Ireland (let me simply say that some priests found novel uses for the Eucharist and the crucifix), the revelations in Germany have shaken the Vatican more than the news from the “English-speaking” countries, as one cardinal dismissed them. Matthias Drobinski has a good commentary in the Suddeutsche Zeitung to explain the severity of the German reaction. He concludes: Die Kirche ist nicht in die Vertrauenskrise geraten, weil sie ein Verein von Missbrauchern ist. Sie ist in der Krise, weil sie sich immer noch starker selbst bemitleidet, statt den Opfern zu helfen, zum Beispiel mit einem Entschadigungsfonds.
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