Vatican Orders Investigation in the Monastery of Holy Cross

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Among other things, the question of "how to deal with allegations of abuse and other serious misconducts" will be examined.

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Serious accusations in the Lower Austrian Cistercian monastery are now calling the Holy See on the agenda. A letter from June already announces an apostolic visitation, a veritable shock for the Catholic Church in the country – a delicate search for traces of abuse & Co. Stift Heiligenkreuz, a hoard of piety and doctrine of salvation, is now in the crosshairs of ecclesiastical investigations. A letter from June already announces an apostolic vis…

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The announced Apostolic Visitation for the Stift Heiligenkreuz continues to cause a stir. For religious law expert Andreas Kovatsch from the University of Vienna, an ordered Visitation in a Stift is "not very commonplace".

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The Vatican decree on the visitation of the Holy Cross Monastery reveals the most exciting details.