Munich report on sex abuse heightens Catholic Church divide over sexuality ... bids farewell to the Bavarian believers in downtown Munich, Germany, Feb. 28, 1982. The Vatican on Jan. 26, 2022, ...

ROME — A report into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany's Munich diocese has found that retired Pope Benedict XVI failed to act in four cases between 1977 and 1982 when he was ...

The Munich archdiocese, in Bavaria, southern Germany, dates back to 739 A.D. It serves more than 1.7 million Catholics in 758 parishes, out of a total population of 3.8 million people.

Berlin, Germany, Aug 23, 2016 / 02:04 am. The plummeting number of priestly vocations in the Catholic Church in Germany is raising questions about the roots of the problem, and whether the ...

BERLIN -- Beset by a series of sex abuse and financial scandals, the Catholic Church in Germany is seeing membership plunge as 2010 comes to a close, ... while still a cardinal in Munich, ...

In the last year alone, the Catholic Church lost almost 220,000 members in Germany. The primary causes are adults leaving the churches, dwindling baptism rates and an aging population.

In 2018, Germany's Catholic Church, which is among the world's wealthiest, apologised to victims after a report found that clerics had abused around 3,700 victims in the seven decades up to 2014.