Father Hans Kung blames Catholic views on sex for ecclesiastic kid abuse

Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent & , : {}

A heading Roman Catholic clergy has related ecclesiastic sex abuse with ecclesiastic celibacy, blaming the Churchs concerned views on sex for kid abuse scandals in Germany, Ireland and the US.

Father Hans Kung, President of the Global Ethic Foundation and highbrow emeritus at the University of Tübingen in Germany, pronounced that the Churchs perspective was additionally suggested in the antithesis to bieing born control.

The German church deserted any idea that abuse was related to celibacy, homosexuality or church teaching.

Last week the Regensburg Diocese in Germany suggested that a former chorister claimed he was abused whilst a part of of the choir, that was led for 3 decades by Father Georg Ratzinger, hermit of Pope Benedict XVI. The Holy See pronounced that it corroborated the dioceses attempts to examine the liaison by analysing the unpleasant subject in a wilful and open way. Also last week, in the Holy See, an adult chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring masculine prostitutes for a Papal usher.

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Robert Zollitsch, Archbishop of Freiburg and head of the German bishops conference, branded ecclesiastic abuse vast and begged redemption from the victims but denied any couple in in between abuse and celibacy.

Writing in The Tablet, Father Kung, who in 1979 was nude of his looseness to learn Catholic divinity after he deserted the didactic discourse of Papal infallibility, welcomed the reparation but described the denials of any couple in in between abuse, virginity and alternative training as erroneous.

He pronounced that it was the box that abuse was found additionally in families, schools and alternative churches. But he asked: Why is it so prevalent in the Catholic Church underneath innocent leadership? He pronounced that virginity was not the usually means of the bungle but described it as the majority critical and structurally the majority wilful countenance of the Churchs concerned perspective to sex.

Citing the New Testament, he says that Jesus and St Paul practised virginity but authorised full leisure in this make a difference to each individual. St Paul in his initial minute to the Corinthians wrote: Because of cases of passionate immorality, each man should have his own mother and each lady her own husband. Peter and the apostles were tied together and their ministries did not suffer, he said, indicating out that thousands of priests protested when the new law was introduced as late as the 11th century.

Father Kung said: Compulsory virginity is the principal reason for todays inauspicious necessity of priests, for the deadly slight of eucharistic celebration, and for the comfortless relapse of personal rural method in most places.

He argues that there are dual elementary solutions to the necessity of priests: Abolition of the virginity rule, the base of all these evils, and the acknowledgment of women to ordination. The bishops know this, but they do not have the bravery to contend it in public.