Wolfgang Niedecken experienced "bad things" in 1964 at a Catholic boarding school. There he was at the age of 13 years, as he calls it, "Sittenstrolch" fell into the hands. Now sounds "Sittenstrolch" almost cute, comparable to a mischief, Schwerenöter or Hallodri. It does not take long for the musician to fly that whimsical phrase around his ears.
The "abuse in the Catholic Church" is probably as old as the Catholic Church itself. With the current study commissioned by the bishops, a little light has fallen into the crypt of ecclesiastical crimes: According to this, from 1946 to 2014, at least 1670 clergy should attend Protectors have passed, as a dark figure of the victims is a 100,000 in the room.
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The bishops speak of sadness, shame and a "great failure of the church". Their blockade when opening files - some dioceses were completely covered - speaks a different language. The journalist Christiane Florin, expert from Deutschlandfunk, calls this practice "walling". The church has been bricked, is still building today and will continue to wall.
Matthias Katsch of the Affected Association "Eckiger Tisch" calls the measures of the church a "perpetrator protection program". And Stephan Ackermann, Bishop of Trier and for eight years the abuse representative of his church, looks professionally dressed up. Why did it take so long with the study? Well, "that's one of the mysterious things".
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The store is filled with Claudia Mönius, who, as an eleven-year-old ministrant, fell victim to a 50-year-old priest. She had received "quasi-pious attention" from this man and later realized that he was "severely disturbed and pedophile". Sittenstrolch? On her underwear she had bunnies, and "Sparrow looking for bunnies" had been the favorite game of the man of God: "So it's clear what we're talking about here!"
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From the church the feisty woman demands: "You must take this cross on you and not only with sanctimonious fuss!" Her torturer was never prosecuted, for which he suffered one of the "hardest penalties" of canon law. He was no longer allowed to celebrate a public mass.
The bishop admits crumpled that a dismissal from the clerical state should have been in there. Sandra Maischberger nods sympathetically and adds that the man had been sentenced to six months to ten years imprisonment in a secular court. Niedecken, who has donated his "Sittenstrolch" meanwhile the overdue update to the "pedophile sadist", politely asks why the church does not hand over all its files to the public prosecutor's office.
"When you went to bed, you were taken out again."
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This question is central, with her Stephan Ackermann is stormed. The answer seems to be "one of the mysterious things" disappearing in a mist of incense. He said that "no personal files should be scanned by unskilled persons", he said "also as employer" and, in any case, with regard to data protection.
Further, "enlightenment" meant for him "tackling a systemic problem". The prosecutors would like to thank you if you had to leaf through files from 70 years, phew, because that's a lot of paper. Also, "opening the archives" is only possible with the consent of those affected, which must be spared a renewed traumatization.
Matthias Katsch countered dryly: "You can not rely on the opinion of an eleven year old, whether they bring it to the ad or not." And Christian Florin criticizes the parallel justice of a guilt-ridden institution that is completely blind to its own guilt.
"That is a de facto parallel justice."
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According to Florin, it would be conceivable to have a "parliamentary committee of inquiry", ie to force extensive investigations. However, there must be a political will to change laws, as has already been expressed in many other countries.
Niedecken formulates an interesting analogy: "If I ask for my Stasi documents, then I get the. What is with my tormentors, I get those too?" Bishop Ackermann says it to him, but certainly, but Florin limits: "Whether they learn something about a guilty, is also related to what career has made in the church thereafter."
Which brings us to the Pope, for example, who did not allow his resolute words ("Zero Tolerance") to make any decisions, even though he would have long since been able to have penalties for such acts inscribed in church law. "I think," exclaims Claudia Mönius with the anger of those still believers, "you are ruining our religion!"
"You are ruining our religion!"
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To repair this church would be by changing their laws, says Katsch. Involvement of the laity. Involvement of women. Abolition of celibacy. After all, "the combination of will to power and repressed sexuality" is on the one hand her biggest problem, on the other hand a "constitutive element of the Catholic Church".
A word in God's ear.