Updates: Catholic priest sex abuse scandal
Following the major report from Pennsylvania on decades of abuse and cover up, and anger in Ireland in the wake of the Pope’s visit, commentators are divided on the narrative. Is the lamentable failure of church leaders to protect young people and control clergy behaviour only about corruption, oppression and self-preservation by a powerful and wealthy religious organization? Or is it also about sexual immorality, specifically homosexual lust (many of the victims were not children but teenage boys and young men), and the destructive confusion and dissonance about sex in church and world?
Newer items at the top:
Pope begs God’s forgiveness for ‘scandal and betrayal felt by so many‘, from Press Association via Premier
Swiss bishop: Abuse crisis ‘is related to homosexuality’ by Maike Hickson, LifeSite
Enough Already by Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing
The must-cover ‘Big Ideas’ at heart of the complex Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis by Terry Mattingly, Get Religion
Fackenheim’s Law and the Current Catholic Crisis by George Weigel, EPPC
US Church homosexual priests scandal is a sequel to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest
Why Priests Won’t Protest Violations of Clerical Celibacy by
Gay Boys To Gay Men by Rod Dreher, American Conservative
Abuse survivors deserve more from Pope Francis by Peter Saunders, UnHerd
Pope Francis’s letter on abuse was not enough. We need action by Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald
A Crisis of Infidelity by Robert P George, First Things
U.S. bishop: Clerical abuse is ‘predominately homosexual behavior’ by James Risdon, LifeSite
Yes, Homosexuality Within The Priesthood Is A Problem by Matt Walsh, Daily Wire
Pope blames U.S. sex abuse crisis on ‘clericalism,’ leaves out homosexuality by Lisa Bourne, LifeSite
Pope Francis’s Failed Abuse Letter by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Bishop’s blistering letter: Time to root out ‘homosexual subculture’ in Church hierarchy by Patrick B Craine, LifeSite
Sexual abuse in the churches, by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch
The present crisis and the work of Satan, by Dwight Longenecker
Bishop Morlino: Homosexual Subculture in Church ‘Wreaking Great Devastation’, Church Militant
Homosexual predators, not paedophile priests are the church’s deadly cancer, by Jules Gomes, VirtueOnline:
Traitors in their midst, by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Rod Was Right and I Was Wrong by Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine
A failing Episcopal establishment, by R R Reno, First Things
The abuse crisis casts doubt on the whole post-Vatican II settlement by Matthew Schmitz, Catholic Herald
Watch: Anglican Unscripted #429 – The Shame in PA
‘The murder of souls’ – covering massive Pennsylvania sex abuse doc = brutal assignment, by Julia Duin, Get Religion
Cleansing the Church of clerical sacrilege, by Dominic Legge, O.P., First Things
“Gay” Priests? An Open Letter to Fr. James Martin by Jim Russell, Crisis Magazine
Clergy abuse sex scandal, from The Ruth Institute: Fr. Paul Sullins
Pennsylvania report details decades of sexual abuse by priests, by David DeKok, Reuters
Report: Cardinal close to Pope is protecting cadre of gay seminarians in Honduras, LifeSite
Seven lessons from the McCarrick case, by Jeffrey Tranzillo, Crisis Magazine
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