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Violence in Catholic Boarding School: a Former Seminarian Remembers

The Traunsteiner Studienseminar St. Michael was considered a catholic cadre forge, as a papal internat. Georg Rieperdinger remembers this time as a dark one. A study is now working on violence and abuse.

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The Traunsteiner Studienseminar St. Michael was considered a catholic cadre forge, as a papal internat. Georg Rieperdinger remembers this time as a dark one. A study is now working on violence and abuse.

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Decades of physical, sexual and psychological abuses are said to have occurred in a Catholic boarding school in Traunstein, Bavaria. Several children and young people are said to have been affected.

When Georg Rieperdinger enters the former study hall in his old boarding school, the memories are immediately back. Alphabetically, the students would have sat there, he accordingly far behind. Then the tears shoot into his eyes. «Trustlessness, helplessness, meaninglessness», he still remembers these feelings well. Rieperdinger was a student of boarding school at the Traunstein seminary St. Michael, a house that for years was considered a catho…

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The seminary St. Michael was considered a catholic cadre forge - also because the later Pope Joseph Ratzinger was a student there. However, a study now sheds light on the dark sides of the institution.

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Zeit Online broke the news in Germany on Monday, July 28, 2025.
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