- Charles Morerod, the bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, is in the hospital.
- He had to undergo surgery on his head.
- The operation went well, the diocese said.
“We wish him a speedy and complete recovery,” concludes a statement from the diocese. It was the result of a cranial hemorrhage that resulted from a fall on a bicycle a few months ago. Two subdural hematomas formed. Subdural hematoma is the technical term for bleeding between two meninges.
The bishop was admitted to hospital as an emergency on Wednesday.
The hospitalization came one day after the University of Zurich published a pilot study on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Switzerland on Tuesday. Charles Morerod spoke in the media on Wednesday and described the study as “shocking”.
The bishop himself was accused in the last edition of Sonntagsblick of not having intervened after cases of abuse were reported. The man from Freiburg pointed out that he could not comment on these allegations because the “facts had been submitted to the relevant bodies,” that is, to the state and church judiciary. He does not want to interfere in the work of these investigations, but awaits their results “with calmness”.