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This announcement is likely to shake the Catholic Church in Germany further: "Cardinal Reinhard Marx has asked Pope Francis to accept his resignation from the office of Archbishop of Munich and Freising and to decide on its further use", it says in a letter on the website of Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
Marx is quoted as saying that the Catholic Church has reached a “dead point”.
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