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Mon 05 May 2010Vatican's Cardinal Sodano accused of sex abuse cover-up
IN A HIGHLY unusual development, the archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, has accused the former Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, of having blocked a Vatican inquiry into sex abuse allegations against the late, disgraced cardinal of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groer.
Cardinal Schönborn’s accusations come on a weekend when Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of yet another bishop, German Walter Mixa, the bishop of Augsburg in Bavaria, who is under investigation in relation to accusations of child sex abuse.
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