The DNA paternity test taken by Cardinal Franc
Rode to prove he was not the father of a German citizen who claimed the
opposite has proven negative.
A spokesman for Munich University’s Institute of Legal Medicine, where the test was conducted, confirmed that Cardinal Franc Rode was definitely not the father of the interested party.
“I am glad that the results are those I expected at the start. Defamation of this kind isolates a man in his pain,” the cardinal and former archbishop of Ljubljana said in a statement quoted by the media.
At the end of August, Slovenian daily Delo published a statement by Peter S., a 42 year old German who claimed he was born out of a relationship between Tanja Breda, his mother and Franc Rode in 1969.
At the time, Cardinal Rode was a young priest and professor at the faculty of theology in Ljubljana.
The cardinal strongly denied these claims, adding that he had spoken to Peter S. on the telephone to clear up the allegations.
Consequently, Franc Rode agreed to undergo a paternity test.