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Retired Pope Benedict XVI, 94, said he prayed that he would be forgiven for his shortcomings, including in handling allegations of clerical sexual abuse in Germany.
The Munich report, 20 years after the Boston Globe put the spotlight on sexual abuse and its cover-up in the Catholic Church
A former Gestapo general who sent tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths was protected from prosecution by US and West German intelligence after World War II, it has emerged. SS-General Franz Josef Huber served as head of the Gestapo in Vienna and much of Austria following the Nazi takeover. He worked closely with Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, and ordered the deportation of Austrian Jews to concentration camps. Yet while Eichmann was captured by Israel and sentenced to death – next weekend marks the 60th anniversary of his trial – Huber was released by US forces after...