Germany's Cardinal Marx apologises after Munich sex abuse report

Reinhard Marx, the cardinal of the Munich and Freising Archdiocese addresses a news conference after a survey on allegations of sexual abuse in the southern German Archdiocese between 1945 and 2019 was published in Munich, Germany, January 20, 2022. Sven Hoppe/Pool via REUTERS

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, apologised on Thursday to the victims of historic sexual abuse in his archdiocese after a report found fault with his handling of the scandal as well as with former Pope Benedict XVI.

"As the current archbishop, I apologise on behalf of the archdiocese for the suffering inflicted on people in the area of the church in recent decades," Marx said in a statement.