BERLIN (GERMANY)
Catholic News Service
April 30, 2020
The Catholic Church has become Germany’s first institution to agree to fixed and binding rules for investigating sexual abuse cases.
The agreement, described as historic by the German government’s abuse commissioner, could become a blueprint for other institutions in the fight against abuse. The Protestant Church in Germany and churches in many other countries have yet to take that step, reported KNA, the German Catholic news agency.
The eight-page agreement, drafted by the bishops and Johannes-Wilhelm Rorig, the German government’s independent commissioner for sexual abuse issues, obliges the bishops to appraise abuse in their diocese according to fixed and transparent rules.
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