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German women suffer pay gap despite ‘Merkel bonus’ (AFP)

March 29th, 2010

Visitors walk past a Deutsche Telekom logo at a German telecommunications fair in Hanover. Europe's top telecommunications group, Deutsche Telekom, this month unveiled a quota for female senior executives as Germany as a whole still trails far behind in pay equality between the sexes.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - Europe’s top telecommunications group, Deutsche Telekom, this month unveiled a quota for female senior executives as Germany as a whole still trails far behind in pay equality between…

German ‘gang of retirees’ sentenced in kidnapping (AP)

March 23rd, 2010

AP - Three German retirees who lost $1.4 million in the financial crisis and kidnapped their American investment adviser in an attempt to recoup the money were convicted Tuesday, with…

German diocese say 6 accused over abuse (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

A woman holds rosary beads during a Sunday mass in a Church in Armagh, Northern Ireland, March 21, 2010. The Vatican has to take cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy more seriously, the abbot of a Swiss monastery at the centre of an abuse scandal told a Swiss Sunday paper. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton/FilesAP - Four priests and two nuns in the Regensburg diocese are under investigation for sexual abuse allegations, the diocese said Monday, as a wider picture began to emerge of…

German archbishop says abuse covered up for years (AP)

March 21st, 2010

AP - A news magazine reports that the head of the German Bishops Conference admits the Roman Catholic church consciously covered up cases of sexual abuse by priests.

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German bishop surprised at number of abuse cases (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Wolfgang Blaschka is seen during an interview in Munich, southern Germany, on Thursday, March 11, 2010. Wolfgang Blaschka, who was a student at the Domspatzen Preschool in Pielenhofen, talked with journalists of the Associated Press. Wolfgang Blaschka told The Associated Press that while he was a student at the Etterzhausen school just outside Regensburg, corporate punishment was the rule, not the exception. German educators sharply criticized Roman Catholic church officials on Thursday for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal - comments that came a day before the country's highest bishop was to meet Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The criticism came as more victims of the alleged abuse stepped forward, including a one-time member of the famed all-boys choir that was led by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the pope's brother, from 1964-1994. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - The Roman Catholic bishops in Pope Benedict XVI’s native Bavaria sought Tuesday to deal with a sexual abuse scandal whose ever-widening scope has left church leaders baffled.


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Pope’s role in a German priest’s sex-abuse scandal (Time.com)

March 15th, 2010

The Vatican is fighting attempts to link Pope Benedict XVI, seen here, to child sex abuse with a counteroffensive against widening paedophilia scandals.(AFP/File/Andreas Solaro)Time.com - German Catholics are stunned at the revelations in a decades-old case that occurred under the watch of the Archbishop of Munich — now Pope Benedict XVI


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German diocese suspends convicted sex abuser (AP)

March 15th, 2010

AP - A German archdiocese that Pope Benedict XVI oversaw from 1977 to 1982 said Monday that a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing children has been suspended for…

German Catholics to investigate abuse charges (AP)

March 10th, 2010

The spokesman of the diocese Regensburg Clemens Neck is seen in front of a painting showing Pope John Paul II in Regensburg, southern Germany, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Roman Catholic diocese of Regensburg in southern Germany said it appointed an independent investigator to examine the allegations of physical and sexual abuse that have engulfed the prestigious Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir, which was led by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the pope's older brother, from 1964 until 1994. So far, the sexual abuse allegations predate Ratzinger's term. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - Catholic authorities in Germany announced two major abuse investigations Wednesday — one into the renowned choir once led by Pope Benedict XVI’s brother and another more general look…

APNewsBreak: German diocese to examine choir abuse (AP)

March 10th, 2010

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it. In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - A spokesman for the Regensburg Catholic diocese in Germany says the diocese will investigate allegations of physical and sexual abuse that have swirled around a famed choir once…

German high court: Telecom data cannot be retained (AP)

March 2nd, 2010

AP - Germany’s highest court on Tuesday overturned a law allowing authorities to retain data on telephone calls and e-mail traffic for help in tracking criminal networks.

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