Pope’s brother says he slapped pupils’ faces
Rev Georg Ratzinger, 86, made the comments to a German paper following charges of sexual and physical abuse in Catholic schools in the pope’s native Bavaria.
In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse yesterday, he said he “repeatedly administered a slap in the face” to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980.