The report was commissioned in 2014 by the Roman Catholic Church Bishops' conference in Germany.
The apology came on the heels of a new report that found more than 3,600 children in German had been victimized by clergy members.
"For too long, the church has denied abuse, looked away and covered it up", said Cardinal Reinhard Marx, left, who heads the German Bishops' Conference. Sexual abuse was crime, he said, and those guilty of it must be punished.
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