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Regensburg (dpa / lby) - The Catholic diocese of Regensburg now wants to set up a commission to deal with sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
"The constituent meeting of the processing commission will take place in the next few days," announced the diocese on Friday.
Shortly before, a spokesman had said that Regensburg did not want to set up a commission and was negotiating a special way with the federal government's abuse commissioner, Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig.
On the other hand, Rörig stated on request that he had no knowledge of these negotiations.
His spokeswoman now welcomed the decision from Regensburg to set up a commission.
About a year ago, the Permanent Council of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK) agreed on a "Joint Declaration on Binding Criteria and Standards for an Independent Approach to Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany" and decided to set up independent review commissions in all 27 dioceses . At the time, Rörig spoke of a "historic decision".
The diocese of Regensburg with its conservative bishop Rudolf Voderholzer had initially emphasized that they were much further there than in other dioceses and saw no need for a new commission.
In fact, for example, they had declared much earlier that payments for victims of abuse would be increased to 50,000 euros.
In addition, the diocese has already worked on cases involving the world-famous Regensburger Domspatzen and published scientific studies on them.
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Information on the processing in the diocese of Regensburg