Cardinal Woelki refuses to resign, says church law must be changed cruxnow.com

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, 64, said he won’t resign following the publication of the report on the handling of clerical sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

“To simply take the moral responsibility with me and to go to protect the reputation of the office of bishop and of the church — I think that’s too easy. And in my view it is also wrong,” the cardinal said March 23. “Such a resignation would only be a short-lived symbol.”…

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