“I have a pure heart,” Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg assured the press at the beginning of April when he was faced with allegations of having severely beaten orphans during his period of being parish priest in the Schrobenhausen.
Three months later, Bishop Mixa was at the centre of one of the German Church’s fiercest public rows.
Having resigned in the face of further allegations of beating children and misappropriation of funds, Bishop Mixa subsequently attacked his brother bishops in the press and claimed that he had been bullied out of office. He said he would appeal against his resignation and start a canonical case, pleading for an audience with the Holy Father.
