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Cologne Archdiocese awaits potentially explosive report on abuse


People are silhouetted against the Cologne Cathedral in Germany in 2016. (CNS/Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)
A potentially explosive report about sexual abuse in Germany s Cologne Archdiocese is set to be released March 18.
The fate of the city s archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, could be profoundly affected. He has offered to resign if he is implicated in a cover-up.
The upper echelon of the archdiocese will be targeted in the currently secret report, according to Joachim Frank, chief correspondent of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the city s largest newspaper.
Those responsible from the diocese management who covered up cases of sexual abuse or committed violations of secular and ecclesiastical law shall be mentioned, Frank told NCR. ....

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