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Date / Time: 4/23/2008 3:06 PM UTC
A clergy-abuse survivors site reports on anti-celibacy researcher A.W. Richard Sipe's open letter to Pope Benedict. Sipe discusses the reports he has received over the years about former DC Archbishop (and first Bishop of Metuchen, NJ) Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. I'm sure Sipe's arguments are more sophisticated, but I see that it boils down to this: priests, bishops, and cardinals have violated the vow of celibacy, so the concept of celibacy is thus dispensable.While we're sort of on the subject, I have one major quibble with the Pope. While it was commendable for him to speak forcefully against pedophilia and the Church's lack of response, he made a distinction between pedophilia and homosexuality. "I would not speak in this moment about homosexuality, but pedophilia, [which] is another thing," said the Holy Father aboard his DC-bound plane.This opened the door for Cardinal Levada (who is being touted to replace Cardinal Egan as NY Archbishop, which makes me uneasy) to suggest that Benedict was distinguishing between pedophilia and ephebephilia, a clinical term for homosexual acts with adolescent boys.Why make such a distinction at all? Any sexual act with a minor, besides being sinful and a violation of celibacy, is ILLEGAL and a sign of a very deep psychological disturbance. And the John Jay study of 2004 revealed that a significant percentage of the instances of priestly sexual abuse fall under this category.And it's only a hop, skip, and a jump from here to what Cardinal McCarrick and others are accused of by Sipe.So while I applaud Benedict's forcefulness on the issue (and the clear pastoral example he's set for his obtuse U.S. bishops), it's clear that our shepherds are only beginning to understand this crisis.Posted by Commander Craig at 4/21/2008 08:13:00 PM
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