Abuse in the Catholic Church, DW Documentary

Child abuse in the Catholic Church was long a taboo subject, kept under wraps by senior church dignitaries. But in the pursuit of justice, the Churchs inactivity eventually prompted the victims of child abuse to take matters into their own hands. For too long the Church has denied, ignored and hushed up abuse. The victims are entitled to In September 2018, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German Bishops Conference, uttered these words and apologized to all victims of sexual abuse by Catholic officials in Germany. But Matthias Katsch, one of the most prominent representatives of victims in Germany, maintains that the Churchs handling of abuse remains problematic even now. A former pupil at the private CanisiusKolleg school and spokesperson for the Squared Table victims initiative uncovered the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Germany in 2010. For over thirty years, his abusers crimes had stayed covered up. Then, Matthias Katsch and his former classmates broke