Friday, September 28, 2018

Bishop Oster: Abuse Crisis Not About Celibacy


The Passau Bishop Stefan Oster has pointed out in the ARD Morgenmagazin that the abuse crisis is not about celibacy.

Passau (kath.net) Passau Bishop Stefan Oster has pointed out this week in the ARD Morgenmagazin that the abuse crisis is not about celibacy. According to Oster, this has been confirmed by the authors of the DBK's abuse study. In the Churxb, there were always sexually immature people. Even in today's society, there are many singles, often involuntarily. [Did he just identify incels?] These are not put under general suspicion, according to Oster, to be potential culprits.

AMDG

1 comment:

Peter W said...

The crisis is mainly one of credibility and moral authority. The Church's hierarchy from the Pope through the world's episcopates have forfeited both and may have lost them for decades even centuries. All the bishops of the Catholic Church have been since 1922 forbidden by Canon Law to report paedophile clergy to civil authorities. It is only recent years that exemptions have been give to bishops in civil jurisdictions that have mandatory reporting.
The Catholic Church has been prepared and, in most parts of the world, continues to place the institution of the priesthood and the 'honor' of the Church above the human dignity of children. The systemic institutional coverups is even worse than the catalogue of the instances of terrible abuse.

Every Catholic of whatever viewpoint needs to understand that this is at the heart of the Church's inner spiritual corruption.