Retired Pope Benedict blames the sexual revolution and church laws for the clergy abuse scandal, in new essay.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica as he attends the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year, at the Vatican, on Dec. 8, 2015.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published an analysis on the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal, blaming it on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and church laws that protected priests.
U.S. church analysts said the essay, published in the German monthly Klerusblatt, was both flawed in content and problematic on universal church level, exacerbating existing divisions in the church that have emerged between supporters of Francis and Catholics nostalgic for Benedict's doctrine-minded papacy.
Benedict wrote that during the 1980s and 1990s,"the right to a defense was so broad as to make a conviction nearly impossible." "If a pope emeritus decides to stay silent, it's one thing and can be defended. But speaking and telling a tiny part and a very personal version of the story, it's hard to defend," he said on twitter.
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