Fr Hermann Geissler - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 23 May 2019 06:30:04 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Fr Hermann Geissler - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Acquittal of Vatican official a ‘scandalous verdict' https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/05/23/acquittal-vatican-official-canon-lawyer/ Thu, 23 May 2019 07:55:47 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=117852 Canon lawyer Professor Thomas Schüller of Münster University, one of Germany's best-known canon law experts, has sharply criticised the acquittal of Vatican official Fr Hermann Geissler (FSO), an Austrian priest and a former section head at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He called the acquittal a "scandalous verdict" as it had been Read more

Acquittal of Vatican official a ‘scandalous verdict'... Read more]]> Canon lawyer Professor Thomas Schüller of Münster University, one of Germany's best-known canon law experts, has sharply criticised the acquittal of Vatican official Fr Hermann Geissler (FSO), an Austrian priest and a former section head at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

He called the acquittal a "scandalous verdict" as it had been made without hearing the plaintiff Doris Wagner-Reisinger.

On 15 May, the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial authority in the Church apart from the Pope, acquitted Fr Geissler, 53, of charges of solicitation during Confession made against him by Doris Wagner-Reisinger, a former nun born in 1983, when she, too, was a member of the FSO (The Spiritual Family "The Work").

The reason given for the acquittal was that "the circumstances of an alleged serious crime had not been proven with sufficient moral certainty." Read more

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