More on the German Jesuit abuse business:

* From Iran-based PressTV,

Germany’s heinous sexual abuse scandal, which has cast shadow over the country’s Jesuit-run institutions, deepens with the likelihood of over 100 victims in one of the schools.

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Some 50 students have come forward with allegation of abuse, but the Berlin college’s rector said Monday he believed the victims in that school alone would amount to at least 100.

“I believe that it will turn out to be a three-digit number…More and more victims come forward every day,” Klaus Mertes, director of the Canisius Kolleg told the Berliner Zeitung daily in an interview.

* From Irish Times,

The German reports are all the more alarming since, at least initially, they have concerned elite Jesuit boarding schools in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn and other cities. Last week, Fr Theo Schneider resigned his position as principal of a Jesuit school in Bonn after two former pupils claimed to have been abused at the school.

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The news magazine Der Spiegel last week reported that, following a survey of Germany’s 27 dioceses, at least 94 priests were suspected of sexual abuse of children.

Jesuit Hans Langendoerfer, secretary of the German bishops conference, told Der Spiegel : “The revelations show a dark side of the church that scares me . . . We expressly want an investigation.”

The reigning pontiff has a chance to do something for his home turf, it would seem.