Georg Ratzinger

After new reports on German choir abuses, bishop vows to boost prevention
- Jul 24, 2019
A German bishop has vowed to intensify “preventive measures” after two church-sponsored reports confirmed systemic violence and abuse at his diocese’s cathedral schools between 1945 and 1995, including 30 years when their famous choir was run by Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, brother of retired Pope Benedict XVI.

By Jonathan Luxmoore
Vatican denies report Pope Benedict has degenerative disease
- Feb 15, 2018
The Vatican denied that Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has a degenerative neurological disease or paralyzing condition after his brother, 94-year-old Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, told a magazine that Benedict has a debilitating disease.

By Junno Arocho Esteves
German abuse report ‘shocking’ and not the end, Church expert says
- Jul 28, 2017
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading anti-abuse expert and a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, called a report documenting hundreds of cases of physical and sexual abuse at a German boys’ choir “shocking,” and warned that as the taboo lifts in other parts of the world, similar accounts are likely to keep emerging.

By Inés San Martín

Ex-Vatican doctrine chief says Church did what it could on German abuse scandal
- Jul 20, 2017
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, until recently the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke about a recent report that found 547 former members of the Regensburg Domspatzen boys choir were abused, including 67 cases of sexual violence. As former diocesan archbishop, he began the investigations into the allegations, which first surfaced in 2010.

By Inés San Martín
Hundreds of boys abused in choir once run by Georg Ratzinger
- Jul 18, 2017
Allegations involving the Domspatzen choir in Regensburg, which was run for 30 years by Benedict’s elder brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, were among a spate of revelations of abuse by Catholic clergy in Germany that emerged in 2010. A new report investigating the abuse counted 500 cases of physical violence and 67 of sexual violence, committed by a total of 49 perpetrators.

By Geir Moulson