What more can be said about the Roman Catholic Church that hasn’t already been stated on this Blog? The Church is a corrupt organization. No doubt it has good people, but also quite a number of real perverts who have destroyed the lives of countless children. People would be smart to stay clear of the Catholic Church (and churches in general). And definitely, keep your children far, far away from the clergy!
Refer to story below. Source” Associated Press
BERLIN – German officials said Friday that a preliminary investigation has been launched against Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa, who offered Pope Benedict XVI his resignation already last month over allegations he physically abused minors.
The daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported that Ingolstadt prosecutors had launched the preliminary investigation into Mixa over a charge of sexual abuse stemming from his time at the Eichstaett diocese from 1996 to 2005.
The Augsburg diocese confirmed in a statement that it had “handed over information, that has recently come up to the responsible authority,” involving the bishop, but spokeswoman Kathi Marie Ulrich refused to give any details.
Bavarian Justice Ministry Spokeswoman Stefanie Ruhwinkel said a preliminary investigation had been launched against Mixa but provided no other details.
Prosecutors in Ingolstadt did not respond to calls Friday and Mixa could not be reached for comment.
Mixa’s attorney Gerhard Decker told the paper his client “resolutely denied” the allegations. Decker did not return calls seeking comment Friday.
The bishop has not made any public appearances since he wrote a letter to the pope April 21, offering to step down. He said he hoped the move would allow the diocese a “new start” and offered to cooperate fully with investigators.
German media reported Friday the pope had accepted the resignation, but Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said he would neither confirm nor deny the reports.
Announcements that the pope has accepted a bishop’s resignation offer are published in the Holy See’s press office daily bulletin and are never made public before that step, Lombardi said. The next bulletin will be published Saturday.
Benedict appointed Mixa to lead the Augsburg diocese in July 2005, shortly after he had assumed the papacy.
Allegations that Mixa hit children while a priest decades ago surfaced earlier this year. He initially denied ever using violence against youngsters in a televised interview, but after intense pressure, acknowledged several weeks later that he may have slapped children years ago.
Mixa has been a key member of Germany’s Bishops Conference for more than a decade and his initial denial of physical violence fueled frustration among German Catholics who saw it as fresh evidence that the church was unwilling to come clean on the issue of abuse.
Germany’s church has been rocked by allegations of physical and sexual abuse of minors that began in recent weeks. Hundreds of people have come forward with claims of having been abused by priests.
I have been a Catholic all my life and have lived through the 50’s,60’s, 70’s in the Catholic Church, but I have also lived through those same times in secular society. Do you not see that what is happening in the Catholic Church is not isolated to the Catholic Church. This same problem(s) is 100 times worse in secular society, but all you focus on is the Church. Granted, The Catholic Church, the One True Church, should be held to the highest standard, but what you fail to realize or fail to acknowledge ( because of your hate for the Church) is that if the Church is made up of it’s people it will also reflect what is right and what is wrong with it’s people. But as Chesterton said so well: Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.” – Orthodoxy, 1908 The Catholic Church is the One True Church, it is going through a time when these same problems are pervasive throughout all of society and it cannot help but reflect those same problems, to a degree. The ideal is not wrong because we have failed to live up to it. The Church is 2000 years old and it will, via the power of the Holy Spirit, survive. We do not have to change the Church to accommodate the perversions and vagaries of the times. We have to change ourselves. That is the metanoia that Christ asks of us. To quote Chesterton again; “I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.” – ILN, 6-3-22 So all you anti- Catholics who are using this as fodder, just look a the results of the Protestant Reformation, actually Deformation; 30,000 plus denominations and counting and none of them can agree on what the word “is” means. Do you think that this is what Christ sought to establish on earth? Or are you all just like Martin Luther who could not salve his paranoid conscience in the context of the Catholic Church so he changed his church to fit his conscience.