"Soon, I shall find myself before the final judge of my life"- Former Pope Benedict admits errors in handling of child sex abuse cases

Previous catholic Pope, Benedict XVI has confessed to making blunders in the treatment of sexual maltreatment situations when he was the diocese supervisor of Munich.

A report into the Catholic Church claimed that he neglected to act north of four kid sex misuse cases.

Then, at that point, known as Josef Ratzinger, he was diocese supervisor of Munich from 1977 to 1982.

A report in January by a German law office affirmed that sexual maltreatment by ministers on minors went on under his residency, and that the clerics blamed for doing the maltreatment stayed dynamic in chapel jobs and the pope was completely mindful of it.

In a letter delivered by the Vatican on Tuesday, February 8, the previous pope asked pardon for any "egregious shortcoming" yet denied individual bad behavior.

In his first private reaction to the report, the previous Pope, matured 94, composed:

"I have had incredible obligations in the Catholic Church. All the more noteworthy is my aggravation for the maltreatments and the blunders that happened in those better places during the hour of my order."

He portrayed the activities against survivors of sexual maltreatment as a "most heinous issue.

"As in those gatherings, by and by I can communicate to every one of the survivors of sexual maltreatment my significant disgrace, my profound distress and my sincere solicitation for pardoning.

"Before long, I will wind up under the steady gaze of the last appointed authority of my life", he added.

Before the report was delivered in January, Pope Benedict had denied he had gone to a gathering in 1980 with regards to sexual maltreatment situations when he was ecclesiastical overseer of Munich.

In any case, after the report's delivery, Pope Benedict conceded that he had gone to the gathering. His own secretary at that point, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, said the exclusion was an oversight in the altering of the assertion delivered at that point and was not done out of dishonesty.

Pope Benedict alluded to this in the letter, expressing that he felt profoundly wounded by how this oversight had been utilized "to provide reason to feel ambiguous about my honesty, and even to mark me a liar."

Pope Benedict turned into the principal catholic pioneer to leave in over 600 years when he surrendered in 2013, refering to depletion as his explanation.