Woelki dismissed the legal counsel of his Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne because she took her office chair home at the beginning of the corona pandemic. The counsel had to work through the files on the cases of sexual child abuse by priests of the archdiocese for years. The lawyer filed a lawsuit against the archdiocese and the Cologne Labor Court (Arbeitsgericht Köln) agreed with her; the termination is ineffective. On 2 March 2022, Woelki again offered his resignation to the pope. Publications Gott begleitet uns, with Joachim Opahle (Verlag Herder, 2015) References External links Living people 1956 births 20th-century German cardinals 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Germany Cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI Archbishops of Cologne Archbishops of Berlin Pontifical University of the Holy Cross alumni German military chaplains Members of the Congregation for Catholic Education Members of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments