Life After The Priesthood
Following a near-fatal injury in 1969 he was nursed back to health by a nun, Sister Cordula, who later also renounced her vows. The couple were married in 1971.
He became a teacher of theology and retired in 1992. As recently as 2001, he toured schools in Germany and Austria, speaking about the horrors of the Third Reich, and has even visited Israel, meeting with Holocaust survivors. In early 2011, Bormann was accused of allegedly subjecting a former pupil at an Austrian Catholic boarding school to violent and protracted sexual abuse during his time there working as a priest and schoolmaster, more than 50 years before. Bormann has denied knowledge of the events.
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