{"id":7730,"date":"2010-03-11T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2010-03-11T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:30:48","slug":"celibate-priests-and-pederasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/celibate-priests-and-pederasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Celibate priests and pederasty"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A leading cardinal today claimed that the sex abuse cases rocking the Roman Catholic Church were due to ‘priestly celibacy’.<\/p>\n

Calling for a ‘change of vision’, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, leader of the Catholic Church in Austria, said the causes of sex abuse by priests could be found in ‘priest celibacy’ and ‘priest training’.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks the church has been rocked by a series of abuse scandals in Ireland, Holland and Germany – where Pope Benedict’s retired priest brother Georg Ratzinger has admitted to hitting choir boys.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old cardinal, who is tipped to be a future pope, made the shock claims in a religious magazine.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Schoenborn said: ‘The causes of sex abuse by priests? These need to be found in priest training, as well as the question of what happened in the so-called sexual revolution of 1968.<\/p>\n

‘It also includes the issue of priest celibacy and the issue of personality development.<\/p>\n

‘It requires a great deal of honesty, both on the part of the Church and of society as a whole, a change of vision.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The abuse of children by anyone, in any way, is an unconscionable horror \u2013 particularly so if it is inflicted by church officials.<\/p>\n

But to blame the sexual abuse of children on priestly celibacy makes as much sense as blaming animal abuse on vegetarians: there is no connection between voluntarily renouncing the God-given enjoyment of sexual intercourse and the evil of raping children.<\/p>\n

Even though I don\u2019t agree with Roman Catholic Church\u2019s requirement that priests be unmarried, it seems fairly obvious that the problem is not one of priestly celibacy: it is that candidates for the RC priesthood are not being screened for pederastic sexual perversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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