Father Hans Kung blames Catholic views on sex for clerical child abuse

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Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
The Times


A leading Roman Catholic theologian has linked clerical sex abuse with priestly celibacy, blaming the Church’s “uptight” views on sex for child abuse scandals in Germany, Ireland and the US.

Father Hans Kung, President of the Global Ethic Foundation and professor emeritus at the University of Tübingen in Germany, said that the Church’s attitude was also revealed in its opposition to birth control.

The German church rejected any suggestion that abuse was linked to celibacy, homosexuality or church teaching.

Last week the Regensburg Diocese in Germany revealed that a former chorister claimed he was abused while a member of its choir, which was led for three decades by Father Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI. The Holy See said that it backed the diocese’s attempts to investigate the scandal by analysing “the painful question in a decisive and open way”. Also last week, in the Holy See, an adult chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a Papal usher.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7054181.ece



Ever closer to the rotten core....no wonder they need Opus Deio for their cover-ups.

[MineralMan]

1. Yah, that's why married Protestant ministers never engage in

such things. Oh...wait...

[Jim__]

2. From the article cited in the OP:

He said that it was the case that abuse was found also in families, schools and other churches. But he asked: “Why is it so prevalent in the Catholic Church under celibate leadership?” He said that celibacy was not the only cause of the misconduct but described it as “the most important and structurally the most decisive” expression of the Church’s uptight attitude to sex.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Kung speaks the truth

but he is pretty much on the out and in the theological wilderness with the current Vatican administration.