Sexual abuse, a troubling text by Benedict XV

PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International

April 12, 2019

A German magazine has published a long essay by the former pope who seems to take the opposite position of Pope Francis on the issue of sexual abuse.

Benedict XVI has linked the 1960s sexual revolution and cliques of homosexuals in seminaries to the ongoing crisis within the Catholic Church over sexual abuse of children.The retired pope, who in 2013 became the first pope in more than 700 years to voluntarily step down, argued that the sexual revolution had led some to believe pedophilia and…

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