Sexual Abuse in the Church: A Catholic’s Response

This Lenten and Easter season has been a tough time to be a Catholic. While American dioceses seem to have mostly put the scandal of sexual abuse of children by priests behind them, the recent explosion of reports of abuse, particularly in Ireland and Germany — where the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI was formerly a Bishop — has brought to matter back to the headlines of the American media.

In particular, an article in the New York Times claimed that the Holy Father knew of abuse in a Wisconsin school for deaf children and allowed the offending priest to continue his work. The article was an implication that the Pope, then Cardinal Ratzinger and in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith — “CDF’, which is the Vatican office responsible for not only orthodoxy but ecclesiastic discipline — contributed to abuse by not acting and is morally culpable.

The media coverage has been relentless, and the commentary has often been vicious. Even the occasion of the Holy Father’s Easter homily and Urbi et Orbi (“To the City and to the World”) address have been used as an occasion to blast Benedict XVI for not addressing the scandal in his remarks. More Here…
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