2019 no easier for Catholic Church, says Cardinal Marx

by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

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'We must make clear publicly that we are prepared to tackle the problem of sexual and spiritual abuse in the Church together'

Cardinal Reinhard Marx pictured 6 January
Photo: Stefan Sauer/DPA/PA Images

The President of the German Bishop’s Conference has said that 2019 will be as difficult a year for the Catholic Church as 2018 was.
In a long interview for German daily newspaper KNA, published on 11 January, Cardinal Reinhard Marx discussed some of the main challenges the Church would face during 2019 including the February Abuse summit, the reform of the Curia and the Pan-Amazon Synod.
Asked what progress he hoped for on the abuse issue when the presidents of all the bishops’ conferences met in the Vatican at the end of February, Marx recalled that awareness of the abuse problem differed widely regionally. “Some local Churches have hardly addressed the problem of abuse at all yet, some are in the middle of discussing it and some have already launched measures to deal with it,” he pointed out.
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