Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI blamed "the 1968 revolution" for sexual abuse in the Church

Since he abdicated the papacy six years ago, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI He kept silent about the problems of the Roman Catholic Church, especially to give full authority to his successor, Pope Francis. However, the former pontiff He published a surprise document Thursday containing his reflections on badual abuse in the Catholic Church and in which he claims that his origin lies in the moral collapse of society. He also denounces a guarantee of justice for years with pedophile priests.

The 18-page document with the title "The church and badual abuse"will be published in the monthly magazine "Klerusblatt" dedicated the Catholic clergy in Bavaria and has been advanced today by various media, including the "Corriere della Sera"or Spanish by the Catholic agency Aciprensa.

The text does not give guidance on how to eradicate child abuse in the church and concludes that pedophilia has reached "these proportions" before "the absence of God" .

Benedict XVI defends the publication of this text with the intention of contributing to this "difficult time" that runs through the Catholic Church and that he decided to do so after the meeting that was held in February at the Vatican following the invitation of Pope Francis to presidents of episcopal conferences around the world.

Joseph Ratzinger, who resigned from the pontificate in February 2013 and broke his silence on rare occasions, says that Before publishing it, he contacted Pope Francis and the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin..

In the document, divided into three parts, Benedict XVI begins by badyzing the historical context that led to this scourge of abuse. stating that since the 1960s "the hitherto restrictive standards of baduality have completely collapsed" in societyand quotes some examples from his homeland, Germany.

Ensures that among the freedoms for which the 1968 revolution was defeated "was total badual freedom, which had no more standards "and that it is" strongly related to this mental collapse ".

And at the same time "Catholic moral theology has collapsed that left the Church helpless in the face of these societal changes", he argues.

According to Benedict XVI, even "At several seminars, homobadual groups were created, which acted more or less openly, which significantly changed the climate that inhabited them."

He also stated that "part of the physiognomy of the 1968 revolution was that pedophilia was also diagnosed as permissible and appropriate."

Reveals that at a seminar in southern Germany, candidates to the priesthood and the lay ministry of pastoral specialists (Pastoral reference) they lived together and even the married were sometimes with their wives and children; and sometimes with their girlfriends. "

For Ratzinger "The climate in this seminar did not provide the necessary support for the preparation of the priestly vocation."

In another part of the document, he explains that "warranty"a system based" on the guarantee first and foremost of the rights of the accused "came" to the point that any type of conviction was totally excluded ".

He says it was then that "according to Pope John Paul II" it had been decided that it was "appropriate to entrust these offenses to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith", which Ratzinger directed at the time.

And that this "made it possible to impose the maximum penalty, that is to say the expulsion of the clerical state, which could not have been imposed by virtue of other legal provisions".

(With information from EFE)