LONDON (ENGLAND)
Daily Mail
January 29, 2019
By Connor Boyd
A senior Vatican priest who oversaw sex abuse cases has resigned after being accused of making advances towards a nun during a confession.
Austrian Father Hermann Geissler, 53, a top official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said he was stepping down ‘to limit the damage already caused to the Congregation and its Community’.
He professed his innocence and asked that a canon trial – which has already started – should continue.
Geissler – whose office oversaw sex abuse cases – said he would consider legal action to protect his reputation.
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