The Diocese of Regensburg: Priest Found Not Guilty of Abuse and Reinstated

With drums and trumpets a clergyman was public hung and left hanging for ten months. He was innocent.

(kreuz.net)Father Jakob Eder (69) of St. Pankratius in Parkstein was accused of abuse in December 2010.

Because of the politically motivated condemnation without a trial of the German Bishops, he had to leave his parish immediately.

Actually the case was pulled out of the thin air.

This is what the anti-Church newspaper "Suddeutsche" regretfully admitted on the 8th of October.

Parkstein is a town in Upper Pfalz, a suburb in the Diocese of Regensburg.

A Cool Reception for the "Suddeutsche"

On the Vigil Mass on the last Saturday, the clergyman was employed again.

The 'Suddeutsche' joked that in the front end the representatives of the Diocese wanted to ready a "cool reception".

In truth the "Suddeutsche" has driven the inflammation of the irrational abuse-hoax
in Germany.

The usual Abuse Language is Used

In December of 2010 the Diocese of Regensburg published a letter from the Vicar General Micheal Fuchs about the "Dear Brothers and Sisters in Parkstein and Kindenemenreuth".

In there pulsed the usual abuse-hoax language.

The exoneration of Fr. Eder has formed "disquiet and disappointment about the decision".

Many could not understand that the accusations would apply.

Representatives of the Diocese would have liked to have been "noticeably impressed" at a meeting with the Parish Council and administration on site.


"Even on our part there applies to the proof the contrary, the presumption of innocence," claimed the vicar-general - and treated the priest as a culprit.

The diocese gave the priest's full name with a description for the abuse-crazed mob, to which German public relations made an award for the kill.

The priest was allowed to hang

Then the Diocese and the State Prosecutor let a lot of time pass.

There were ten long months were Father Eder was in the Hell of being suspected of abuse.

For three months no one said anything to him about how it was going.

Stage Managed by a Psycholigist

Later it became known that the clergyman was being slandered by a mentally ill woman from Windischeschenbach -- or it would be better to say, by her female Psychologist.

The mentally ill woman lived in the halfway house Saint Elizabeth which was directed by Father Eder from 1975 to 2000.


Guidelines Not Covered by Praxis

The prosecutor considers these guidelines in dealing with abuse-delusions to be impractical:

"What the Church described to us as lay, I would describe in such things in the Church as lay" -- he said.

It is usual for investigations by the prosecution to first collect evidence and then not to confront the accused until later with that.

The scandal-guidelines do, however, exempt an accused priest immediately from duty.

So be Father Eder came into a situation where he was indeed suspended, but did not know why.


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