Ex-pope Benedict blames Church abuse crisis on 1960s sexual revolution

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The 91-year-old said paedophilia in the church 'reached such proportions' because of the 'absence of God'.

The ex-pope, who retired in 2013, said responsibility for the crises rocking the Roman Catholic Church globally from Australia to Europe lay with the fight for an"all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer admitted any norms".

"Part of the physiognomy of the Revolution of '68 was that paedophilia was then also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate," he wrote in a 6,000-word essay for Klerusblatt, a German monthly magazine for clergy. Benedict, who was the first pontiff to resign in almost 600 years, said the direct consequence was the"collapse of the next generation of priests in those years and the very high number of laicisations" or priests leaving the Church.

 

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A church which believes in redemption for criminals is morally praiseworthy. But not when it protects them from trial and punishment and provides them with fresh opportunities to rape those who in law and fact are not capable of giving consent SickCult

Neanderthals don't have God

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