Tag: Rainer Maria Woelki

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Church abuses in Germany: court orders Cologne Archdiocese to pay victim €300,000

  

  A German regional court on Tuesday ordered the Archdiocese of Cologne to pay €300,000 (roughly US$325,000) in damages to an abuse victim for crimes committed in the 1970s. A far higher sum than Germany's Catholic Church dioceses have paid in voluntary, symbolic compensation payments in the past.