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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7054181.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
Father Hans Kung blames Catholic views on sex for clerical child abuse
Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
A leading Roman Catholic theologian has linked clerical sex abuse with 
priestly celibacy, blaming the Church’s “uptight” views on sex for child 
abuse scandals in Germany, Ireland and the US.
Father Hans Kung, President of the Global Ethic Foundation and professor 
emeritus at the University of Tübingen in Germany, said that the 
Church’s attitude was also revealed in its opposition to birth control.
The German church rejected any suggestion that abuse was linked to 
celibacy, homosexuality or church teaching.
Last week the Regensburg Diocese in Germany revealed that a former 
chorister claimed he was abused while a member of its choir, which was 
led for three decades by Father Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope 
Benedict XVI. The Holy See said that it backed the diocese’s attempts to 
investigate the scandal by analysing “the painful question in a decisive 
and open way”. Also last week, in the Holy See, an adult chorister was 
sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a Papal usher.
Robert Zollitsch, Archbishop of Freiburg and head of the German bishops’ 
conference, branded clerical abuse “outrageous” and begged forgiveness 
from the victims but denied any link between abuse and celibacy.
Writing in The Tablet, Father Kung, who in 1979 was stripped of his 
licence to teach Catholic theology after he rejected the doctrine of 
Papal infallibility, welcomed the apology but described the denials of 
any link between abuse, celibacy and other teaching as “erroneous”.
He said that it was the case that abuse was found also in families, 
schools and other churches. But he asked: “Why is it so prevalent in the 
Catholic Church under celibate leadership?” He said that celibacy was 
not the only cause of the misconduct but described it as “the most 
important and structurally the most decisive” expression of the Church’s 
uptight attitude to sex.
Citing the New Testament, he says that Jesus and St Paul practised 
celibacy but “allowed full freedom in this matter to each individual”. 
St Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians wrote: “Because of cases 
of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman 
her own husband.” Peter and the apostles were married and their 
ministries did not suffer, he said, pointing out that thousands of 
priests protested when the new law was introduced as late as the 11th 
century.
Father Kung said: “Compulsory celibacy is the principal reason for 
today’s catastrophic shortage of priests, for the fatal neglect of 
eucharistic celebration, and for the tragic breakdown of personal 
pastoral ministry in many places.”
He argues that there are two simple solutions to the shortage of 
priests: “Abolition of the celibacy rule, the root of all these evils, 
and the admission of women to ordination. The bishops know this, but 
they do not have the courage to say it in public.”

 priestly celibacy
Preciso che rispondo a titolo personale. La corrispondenza alla
moderazione di ICRC va nella apposita casella postale.
Facciamo la controprova. I rabbini si sposano da sempre (e Zanardo ci
informa che adesso ci sono anche rabbine donne). Questo significa che
non dovrebbero esistere rabbini pedofili.  E invece non mancano esempi,
per esempio:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093270.html
Avanti il prossimo con una teoria migliore.

 Avanti il prossimo con una teoria migliore.
tra Hans Kung e Luca Logi chissa' chi e' piu' autorevole.

 Avanti il prossimo con una teoria migliore.
a scuola non ti hanno insegnato a contare, Logi?
Eppure sei anche "dottore" per decreto legge.... 

 a scuola non ti hanno insegnato a contare, Logi?
Non l'hanno insegnato *A TE*, poveraccia di una Redfiddler.
-Stefano 

 Facciamo la controprova. 
questo signore sembra non essere d'accordo con te
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7058065.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
Cardinal Schönborn says celibacy partly to blame for clerical sex abuse
Archbishop Christoph Schoenborn
(Ronald Zak/AP)
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn is seen as a future candidate for the papacy
Richard Owen in Rome
A cardinal seen as a future candidate for the papacy has broken a 
Vatican taboo by raising the possibility that priestly celibacy is among 
the causes of the sex abuse scandal sweeping the Roman Catholic Church.
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna and a protégé of 
Pope Benedict XVI, wrote in his archdiocese's magazine this week that 
the Church must make an "unflinching examination" of the causes of the 
scandal.
He said that these included "the issue of priests' training, as well as 
the question of what happened in the so-called sexual revolution of the 
generation of 1968".
He added: "It also includes the question of priest celibacy and the 
question of personality development. It requires a great deal of 
honesty, both on the part of the Church and of society as a whole."
His remarks came days after Father Hans Kung, the dissident Catholic 
theologian, blamed the Church’s “uptight” views on sex for child abuse 
scandals in Germany, Ireland and the US.
The cardinal's spokesman, Erich Leitenberger, later issued a 
"clarification" claiming that the cardinal was not "in any way seeking 
to question the Catholic Church's celibacy rule" after headlines in the 
German and Italian press such as "Schönborn says priestly abuse is the 
fault of celibacy" and "Celibacy must be reconsidered, Schönborn says".
The cardinal's office said that he had been misinterpreted. Some 
observers said that he had been obliged to issue his "clarification" 
under pressure from the Vatican.
Despite calls by a number of theologians and lay Catholic organisations 
for priestly celibacy to be abolished or made optional, it has been 
repeatedly reaffirmed as untouchable by successive Popes, including Pope 
Benedict XVI.
It may be raised, however, at a conference today and tomorrow at the 
Pontifical Lateran University in Rome marking the "Year of the Priest".
The Lateran conference is being organised by Cardinal Claudio Hummes, 
the Brazilian head of the Congregation for the Clergy, who once observed 
that celibacy was "not dogma".
The celibacy rule for priests was not part of the early Christian Church 
but was introduced in the Middle Ages. A number of early Christian 
fathers were married, including St Peter himself, according to St Mark's 
Gospel.
Tomorrow Pope Benedict is to meet Robert Zollitsch, Archbishop of 
Freiburg and head of the German bishops’ conference, to discuss the 
growing crisis over clerical sex abuse in several countries, including 
the Pope's native Germany.
Archbishop Zollitsch has described clerical abuse as outrageous and 
asked the victims for forgiveness, but has denied any link between sex 
abuse and celibacy.
In his article Cardinal Schönborn said that he could understand the 
frustration of many of the faithful over the paedophilia scandals.
"Enough is enough. That's what many people are saying and thinking," he 
wrote. "Enough of the scandals!"
A number of sex abuse scandals involving priests have come to light in 
Austria recently, one involving a man of 53 who says he was abused 
repeatedly for six years from the age of 11 by two priests.
Pope Benedict is due to issue a pastoral letter to the faithful in 
Ireland on the sex abuse issue after meeting Irish bishops in Rome last 
month.
The scandal has come closer to the pontiff himself after it emerged that 
a former chorister in Regensburg – where the Pope once taught – had 
claimed he was abused while a member of the Cathedral choir, which was 
led for three decades by Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, the Pope's older 
brother.
Monsignor Ratzinger admitted this week that he had slapped choirboys but 
said he knew nothing of sexual abuse allegations.
An article published today in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican 
newspaper, by the historian Lucetta Scaraffia suggested that a greater 
presence of women in high-level decision-making bodies in the Church 
would have helped to lift the "veil of masculine secrecy" over clerical 
sex abuse cases.
This week Father Kung, who was stripped of his licence to teach Catholic 
theology in 1979 after he rejected the doctrine of papal infallibility, 
said in The Tablet that denials of any link between abuse and celibacy 
were “erroneous”.
He said celibacy was not the only cause of the misconduct but described 
it as “the most important and structurally the most decisive” expression 
of the Church’s repressive attitude to sex.
Father Kung added: “Compulsory celibacy is the principal reason for 
today’s catastrophic shortage of priests, for the fatal neglect of 
eucharistic celebration, and for the tragic breakdown of personal 
pastoral ministry in many places.”
Four years ago Pope Benedict reaffirmed the value of priestly celibacy 
after the issue of allowing priests to marry was raised at a Synod of 
Bishops. Last November the Vatican made clear that its new rules 
facilitating the conversion of Anglicans, including married Anglican 
priests, did not signify any change in its rules on priestly celibacy.
Cardinal Schönborn, 65, is a leading conservative theologian of 
aristocratic origin. Born Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter 
Adalbert von Schönborn at a castle in Bohemia, he studied theology and 
Church history in Paris and philosophy and psychology in Austria.
He was ordained in 1970 in Vienna and later studied theology at 
Regensburg University under the then Professor Joseph Ratzinger, now 
Pope Benedict XVI. He was a theologian in France and Switzerland before 
becoming auxiliary Bishop of Vienna, rising to be Archbishop of Vienna 
in 1995 and a cardinal three years later.