Pope Ratz blames the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandals on.....the 1970s?

[marmar]

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI deplored the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and linked it to other vices, including child pornography, sexual tourism and drug abuse, which he said were all promoted by an ideology of social moral relativism.

The pope made his remarks on Monday (Dec. 20), in his annual Christmas address to leaders of the Roman Curia, the Vatican's central bureaucracy.

Looking back over major events of 2010, Benedict put special emphasis on the clerical sex abuse scandals that broke out in several European and South American countries.

....(snip)....

The pope traced the "ideological foundations" of these vices to the 1970s, when he said that "pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children."

It was the same time, Benedict said, that even some Catholic theologians taught that "there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself" but that "anything can be good or also bad, depending upon purposes and circumstances."

A prominent American advocate for sex abuse victims rejected Benedict's comments as "disturbing" and "unseemly." ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/pope-links-sex-abuse-to-v_n_799369.html

[hobbit709]

1. Makes you wonder what's hiding in Ratzo's closet.

[rucky]

8. Maybe he was the inspiration for Midnight Cowboy?

[rurallib]

2. My incident happened in 1962, Ratzo

'splain that?

[unblock]

3. somehow he managed to confuse the '70s with ancient greece.

maybe it was all those toga parties, and he confused ancient greece with ancient rome.
i do that all the time.

[AngryOldDem]

4. Why doesn't he put the blame where it really belongs?

On the sick fucks who were deemed fit to be ordained to the priesthood and the heirarchy who has aided and abetted them since time out of mind.

It's everyone else's fault...never the Church's. That song and dance is getting very, very old.

[mgc1961]

5. The Pope's next excuse: "There are too many cute little boys!"

[City Lights]

6. Jesus wept. nt

[niyad]

7. shouldn't he have said the 60's?

[WinkyDink]

10. Why? One lie is as good as another.

[WinkyDink]

9. Yes, because we all became child-molesters in the 1970's. He's either insane, mendacious, or worse.

My money's on "worse," because this?
"pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children."

IS A COMPLETELY MADE-UP ASSERTION. NOW WHY WOULD A MAN DO THIS?
TO MAKE AN EXCUSE FOR THE INEXCUSABLE, THAT'S WHY.

[montanto]

11. Uh oh, a pomo pope.

Now I've seen it all.

[old mark]

12. Pope-" The kids were asking for it!...Please send your donations now.!"

K&R


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