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German bishop offers to resign over abuse (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

FILE - The March 2, 2009 file photo shows Augsburg's Bishop Walter Mixa during the bishops conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. Mixa is offering his resignation after a flap over allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, his hometown newspaper reported Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday evening offering to resign as bishop and as Germany's Roman Catholic military chaplain, the daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported, without citing sources. ,(AP Photo/Focke Strangmann, file)AP - A leading conservative Roman Catholic bishop in Germany has written to Pope Benedict XVI offering to resign amid persistent allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, the Augsburg Diocese said Thursday.


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