A nun accused of sexual harassment of a collaborator of Pope Francis who investigates abuses committed in the Church

Another bad scandal is shaking the Vatican. A senior official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith presented his resignation after being accused of badual harbadment by a German ex-girlfriend during the confession, 10 years ago.

It is the Austrian priest Hermann Geissler, who was part of the body guaranteeing Catholic dogma and responsible for examining cases of badual abuse of the clergy.

The Congregation reported that Geissler had asked Prefect Luis Ladaria Ferrer on Monday to "abandon his service", which was accepted.

"Father Geissler took this step to limit the damage already done to the Congregation and its community, arguing that the accusation against him was not true and demanding that the canonical process be continued", declared the Holy See in a statement.

In addition, the priest, author of numerous theological publications and, for years, worker in the former Holy Office, reserves the right to present "any legal proceedings".

Following a canonical process, in 2014 Geissler received a note for his harbadment of a young nunreported the French newspaper La Croix. At that time, he acknowledged the facts, according to the newspaper.

Doris Wagner, a 34-year-old German philosopher and theologian, recently explained to Rome the badual badaults she suffered during her eight years of religious life and broadcast the video on social networks.

First of all, the German nun said being raped by a priest in 2008, facts that denounced a superior in Rome. Then it was harbaded by another priest who asked to be his confessorFather Geissler, when he lived in a mixed community called "The Spiritual Family Work", in Thalbach Monastery.

"I had hours on my knees in front of him, he told me that he loved me and that he knew I loved him too, and that even though we could not get married, there were other means, "he explained.

One day, "he tried to take me in his arms and kiss me. I was scared and I ran away. "When she asked to change her confessor, her superior said that she knew that this priest loved young girls.

In 2012, after leaving religious life, Wagner denounced the two priests before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The one who raped her, who was working at the Secretariat of the Holy See, was fired from the Vatican but remained a priest in a community where "many young nuns" live, denounced Doris Wagner.

"If the victims do not speak, the abuse continues forever""said Wagner.