Tag: XVI
Former Pope Benedict XVI asks ‘forgiveness’ for sexual assault scandals
Three weeks after a report implicating him in his handling of sexual assaults on minors in the Archdiocese of Munich, which he led in the early 1980s, the Vatican published…
France: absolute monarchy, from François I to Louis XVI
Absolute monarchy is a political regime in which the king has all the powers! How did the French monarchy succeed in embodying the royal absolutism by divine right that truly…
Pope Benedict XVI implicated by a report on sexual abuse in the German Church
The German Catholic Church is again shaken by a pedophilia scandal. A report on sexual abuse committed since the war in the Archdiocese of Munich paints a bleak picture of…