Church sorry for sex abuse
Germany's Catholic Church on Tuesday apologized to thousands of victims of sexual assault by clergy, with the institution's top cardinal saying perpetrators must be brought to justice.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx said he was ashamed over the decades of abuse that have shattered trust, as well as how so many looked away for so long.
The dismay expressed by the head of the German Bishops' Conference came as the institution published a damning report showing that in Germany, almost 3,700 minors mainly boys were assaulted between 1946 and 2014. The report's authors said the figure was "the tip of the iceberg". "Sexual abuse is a per
