The archbishop of Cologne, one of Germany's most important Catholic dioceses, expressed disappointment Friday that employees used work computers to try to access pornographic websites.

The statement from Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki came after the city's Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper reported that a list from the archdiocese showed more than 1,000 attempts to access such sites from its computers. It said that dozens of employees, including senior clerics, had made such attempts.

The archdiocese confirmed the existence of a list. It said that its IT service provider routinely checks whether its firewalls fend off attempts to access sites with risky content such as violence, pornography and drugs, and that they are not meant to check individuals' usage habits.

It said that the check turned up "no indications of criminally relevant behavior."

"It disappointed me that employees tried to access pornographic pages with the help of devices that our archdiocese made available for their work — even though the firewalls kicked in," Woelki said.

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"To some, the consumption of pornography may appear harmless," he added. "But I agree with Pope Francis, who condemns it and warns of its dangers, in particular the violation of human dignity."

The archbishop said he asked for the incidents to be examined as soon as he heard of them. He added that the archdiocese has many "committed and reliable" employees.

The archdiocese said its internal investigation had shown that Woelki himself wasn't one of the "users of incriminated sites," German news agency dpa reported.

Cologne prosecutors told dpa that they have the archdiocese's list and are examining it, but so far there is no suspicion of any crime and no investigation.

The issue came to light as the archdiocese experiences an unprecedented crisis of confidence centering on Woelki, a conservative who has become a divisive figure in the German church.

In 2020, Woelki kept under wraps a report he commissioned on how local church officials reacted when priests were accused of sexual abuse, citing legal concerns and infuriating many local Catholics. A second report, published in March 2021, found 75 cases in which high-ranking officials neglected their duties.

The report absolved Woelki of any neglect of his legal duty with respect to abuse victims. He subsequently said he made mistakes in past cases involving sexual abuse allegations.

Two papal envoys were dispatched to Cologne to investigate possible mistakes by senior officials in handling cases. Their report led the Vatican to give Woelki a " spiritual timeout " and criticize major communication errors.

In March 2022, after his return, the archbishop said he had submitted an offer to resign. Francis hasn't yet acted on it.

Hollywood actress Crystal Finn, who appeared in the final season of the HBO hit series "Succession," said she was swimming in a California river last month, when something bit her lower extremities. 

"I felt something on my backside and on my leg," Finn told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I started looking around and yelling out and (the otters) popped up right in front of me. Then they dove down and started going at me again."

The actress, who was treated at a hospital for the bites after the incident in North California’s Feather River, is not the only one to be bitten by the marine mammals in what experts are saying is a rare uptick in attacks. 

"After the first otter attack I thought, ‘Wow that was kind of special’ and then two days later there was another one," Tahoe Forest Hospital emergency room physician Dr. Martin Rosengreen told the newspaper. 

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He said the first victim he saw suffered severe injuries with at least 15 to 20 bites after swimming in Serene Lakes in Northern California.

"She was out swimming in the middle of a lake and noticed something brush up on her leg," Rosengreen said. "Then, all of a sudden they started attacking, and she was trying to fend them off and swim away from them at the same time." 

Three women in Montana were also bitten by otters while inner tubing and another otter near Santa Cruz, California, known at "841," continues to evade capture after biting and wrestling away surfboards from surfers. 

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Finn, who played producer Lauren Pawson in "Succession," said she saw three otters during her attack and assumed it was a mother protecting her pups. 

"I could see the bites on my legs and knew I had been bitten on my butt — that one was the worst, but I couldn’t see it," she said. "The bites really hurt."

She added that she wouldn’t have thought to be careful if she had the animals before the attack. 

"If I had seen them, I don’t think it would have given me pause," she explained. "I would have thought, ‘Oh those cute river otters.’"

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But she said she now will rethink bringing her daughter to swim in the river, saying an attack on a child, "It would have been a lot worse."