Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a top adviser to Pope Francis, offered the pope his resignation, saying he was taking responsibility for the church’s institutional failures to prevent clerical sex abuse
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a top adviser to Pope Francis and one of the most powerful figures in the German Catholic Church, offered the pope his resignation, saying he was taking responsibility for the church’s institutional failures to prevent clerical sex abuse, his archdiocese said on Friday.
In a statement on Friday, Cardinal Marx acknowledged “possible mistakes and failures in individual cases to be investigated in detail,” but said he was resigning “to make clear that I am willing to personally bear responsibility not only for any mistakes I might have made but for the Church as an institution which I have helped to shape and mold over the past decades.”
“I strongly believe in a new era of Christianity…but that will only happen, or happen in a better way, if the church renews itself and also learns from this crisis,” the cardinal said. Cardinal Marx was bishop of Trier from 2001 to 2007, when Pope Benedict XVI appointed him archbishop of Munich. Pope Benedict raised him to the College of Cardinals in 2010.
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