![]() the Census Bureau found that the number of families educating their children at home doubled between spring and autumn last year. One of the side effects of the pandemic has been a boom in the homeschooling in the U.S. Worth noting, for now, and we’ll keep making efforts to understand why. While abuse scandals have rocked the local Church in Germany every bit as much as they have the Church in the United States over the last two decades, the approach seems to be markedly different. ![]() While several American bishops have faced Vatican investigations, and several have either been asked or allowed to step down, the opposite seems to be proving the pattern in Germany, which is interesting. That same accommodation was made recently for Archbishop Stephan Hesse of Hamburg, the former vicar general of Cologne, who was also not asked to resign, after he offered to do so.Įarlier this year, the pope also declined the resignation of Cardinal Reinhardt Marx of Münich, who offered to step down from leading his archdiocese as a gesture of responsibility for the clerical abuse crisis. ![]() The Vatican did find Woelki had made “grave errors,” especially in communication around the abuse crisis, which have helped erode trust among the faithful.īut, Rome announced Friday morning, Woelki will be taking a sabbatical at his own request for a period of spiritual renewal. The investigation concluded that the cardinal had violated no norms, broken no laws in the handling of historical abuse claims, and not participated in a cover-up. Credit: Deutche Welle via YouTube.Ĭardinal Rainer Woelki has not been asked to resign by Pope Francis, who also rejected the resignations of Cologne’s two auxiliary bishops. ![]()
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