Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German bishops' conference, admitted that mistakes were made in the German Church's handling of sex abuse of minors and said he anticipates change in the Church.
Speaking out for the first time regarding the contents of a leaked document on Church sexual abuse in Germany, Cardinal Marx attributed the abuse to the Church "lacking attentiveness, lacking sensitivity, through the absence of love."
"God suffers about what we overlooked, where we looked away, what we did not want to believe as true," the cardinal said during his homily at a Mass in Schoenstatt, Germany.
