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Some 70 kilometres southeast of Germany’s buzzing financial hub Frankfurt lies the Triefenstein monastery, located on a secluded estate on the river Main in Bavaria. It’s home to the Christusträger Bruderschaft, a Protestant community of monks who are currently trying to tackle the darkest chapter in their monastery’s history: Sexual abuse by a former prior. The painful secret was long hidden, until, five years after the death of a co-founder, the Bavarian community accused the former monastic superior of sexual abuse. They say he abused at least eight brothers, including at least one who was …

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