Alud criticism against Benedict XVI

Vatican City, 12 (AFP) – In an 18-page text published in "Klerusblatt", a German monthly newspaper of the clergy, the eminent pope commented on scandalous scandals that have hit the Church in the United States, Chile , Australia and Europe. Benedict XVI explains that the 1968 revolution advocated "total badual freedom, without rules", which led "some to consider pedophilia as a permissible and appropriate thing". He also discusses the sinking of faith in the West to explain the scandals related to abusive priests.

The French theologian Marie-Jo Thiel has just published her voluminous book "The Catholic Church against badual abuse of children", where she quotes a text of 1741 Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) against badual abuse. "It is true that the society of the 60s was characterized by a crisis of authority and badual permissiveness, but the context is not enough to explain this crisis." And if pedophilia is due to a lack of faith, so why are there so many priests among the aggressors? ", emphasizes Thiel.

"Identifying in the 60's the beginning of the phenomenon of badual abuse is totally refuted by all available scientific studies," said Mbadimo Faggioli, professor of Christian history at the University of Villanova (USA). And he mentions "the writings of the fathers of the Church of the first centuries.There is an abundant historical and legal literature on the phenomenon".

The Italian Vatican politician Marco Politi was also perplexed by the statements of Ratzinger, known for his erudition. "He knows that pederasty accompanies the whole history of the ecclesiastical institution, the only thing that has been stubbornly hidden, century after century." Ratzinger knows that the council of Spanish bishops of Elvira out of 306 condemned the boys' rapists, "he recalls.

Daddy manipulated?

Experts wonder if Benedict XVI, about to be 92 years old, would be influenced or manipulated, because the pope emeritus had promised to remain discreet so as not to give the impression of an authority parallel to that of Pope Francis . For Marco Politi, "there is something wrong with the pamphlet" of Benedict XVI, including the moment of its publication, several weeks after the historic summit of bishops on the subject, although its dissemination was approved by the Vatican.

"The eminent pope should have chosen silence, and in the most important moments you should hear one voice if you do not create confusion." Politi suspects Benedict XVI of being under the influence of ultra-conservative German cardinals Walter Brandmüller and Gerhard Müller, former guardian of Vatican dogma not renewed by the Argentine pope, "both involved in a distraction operation aimed at to endorse the sins of pedophilia in the belly "of the church to gay culture and the loss of faith".

These prelates are part of a traditionalist side, nostalgic of Benedict XVI. To reflect a certain "dissolution of the teaching of the Church", Benedict XVI also mentions that "homobadual cliques were developed during various seminars, acting more or less openly" in the 1960s. Mbadimo Faggioli also doubts the mysterious transmission of the text in scoop to several American media, close to anti-Francisco circles.

On the other hand, the very traditional Guinean cardinal Robert Sarah is congratulated for the text. "We must thank Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI for having the courage to speak, his last badysis of the crisis in the Church seems to me of utmost importance", said this member of the Curia Roman on Twitter.