BREGENZ (AUSTRIA)
ChurchMilitant.com
August 7, 2018
By Stephen Wynne
In Austria, exhaustion over a decades-old clerical sex abuse scandal has forced an abbot to resign.
Depleted after years of trying to restore the Cistercian Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau to spiritual and financial health, Dom Anselm van der Linde tendered his resignation on July 12 and was officially released from his post by Pope Francis on Aug. 1.
At his 2009 appointment by Pope Benedict XVI, the young Cistercian monk was given charge over 21 Cistercian monasteries spread across Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and the United States.
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