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Sent to South America: Did German bishops hide abusers?

February 14, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: Deutsche Welle has produced a 25-minute documentary on German priests who were accused of sexual abuse in Germany and then worked as missionaries in South America. (Please be advised of the graphic nature of some of the content.)

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Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Peter Damian, Bishop & Doctor

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Today is Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. It also is the Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian (1007-1072), a man of vehemence in all his actions who was brought up in the hard school of poverty, found that he had the vocation of a reformer. He exercised it in the first place against…

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