Cardinal Woelki against “Bild”: witness on his own behalf – media

It’s a tricky role that Rainer Maria Woelki filled out this Tuesday afternoon. Cologne’s cardinal is summoned as a witness in his own case; in a so-called party-interrogation he must against allegations of Picture resist that, against his worst knowledge of the sexual tendencies of a Düsseldorf priest, he nevertheless promoted him. Almost everything is at stake for the churchman – because without honor he would be nothing.