GERMANY
The Teller Report
October 2, 2020
Former Cardinal Joachim Meisner claimed to have been surprised by the abuse in the Catholic Church. But this representation is now wavering.
When the abuse scandal of the Catholic Church in Germany reached the public at the beginning of 2010, Joachim Cardinal Meisner was in the Cologne University Clinic.
He had to have an operation on his left knee.
Meisner later said he had thought of a smear campaign at first.
And then it came out that the reports were well-founded: “That horrified me, that horrified me!”
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