Pope Benedict and Munich’s sex-abuse crisis

It appears that over the course of decades, practically every higher-up in the institution knew, or should have known, what was going on.

Unofficial estimates say country may have highest number of victims of paedophile priests in world

The complaints, going back seven decades, attest to the pervasiveness of sexual and other abuse are part of a worldwide reckoning.

The Munich report, 20 years after the "Boston Globe" put the spotlight on sexual abuse and its cover-up in the Catholic Church

Ratzinger's handling of claims of abuse during his administration are matters under scrutiny.