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	Catholic Child Abuse Scandal Intensifies By James Boxell Financial Times April 22, 2010 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6c751552-4e19-11df-b437-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F6c751552-4e19-11df-b437-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bishop-accountability.org%2FAbuseTracker%2F The child abuse scandal that has engulfed the Vatican intensified on Thursday after two more bishops offered to resign and the leaders of 5m Catholics in England and Wales issued the strongest admission of guilt yet to emerge from the church. The offer of resignation by Walter Mixa, Bishop of Augsburg in southern Germany, will be particularly unwelcome for Pope Benedict XVI as the two men are close allies. Bishop Mixa is alleged to have beaten children at a Catholic children’s home in the 1970s and 1980s. He has not been accused of sexual abuse. Pope Benedict on Tuesday accepted the resignation of James Moriarty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in Ireland, over the mishandling of allegations during his time in the Dublin Archdiocese.
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