Pope Francis has asked Cardinal Reinhard Marx to remain in office.
“That is my answer, dear brother.
Carry on as you suggest, but as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, ”the Pope wrote in a letter to Marx published by the Vatican on Thursday.
Last Friday, Marx announced that he had offered the Pope his resignation on May 21.
In his letter to the Pope, Marx wrote: “In essence, for me it is about sharing responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse by officials of the Church in the past decades.” The studies and reports of the past ten years have consistently shown for him, that there had been “a lot of personal failure and administrative errors”, but “also institutional or systemic failure”.
Marx is also accused of misconduct in dealing with possible cases of abuse.
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