Vienna prepares for Pope visit

September 06, 2007

The German-born Pope, making his first visit to a German-speaking country other than his homeland, will be visiting Vienna, where he'll pay tribute to Austrians killed by the Nazis, Heiligenkreuz and the pilgrimage site of Mariazell. The Pope's visit comes as the Austrian Church is still feeling the effects of scandals from the past few years, one of which forced the late archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer to resign after allegations he had molested a schoolboy two decades earlier. Joanna Partridge reports for Reuters