It can only get worse. Now the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. spoke up and revised a central point of his statement in the Munich abuse report. Contrary to what was initially claimed, Benedict XVI. Now, to have been present at the decisive ordinariate meeting in mid-January 1980, which dealt with the admission of the pedophile priest Peter H. to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. In his statement to the experts, Benedikt stated three times that he had not been at the meeting. And pointed out his excellent long-term memory.
He has now announced that an editorial error had occurred in the processing of his statement, and he was sorry. So sorry for the editorial error. But not the fact that a conspicuous priest was accepted into his responsibilities, who was then able to abuse many other children and young people. No, Benedict XVI apologizes for that. not.
Mistakes, oversights, omissions – those responsible for the church use such euphemistic terms when it comes to abusers and how to deal with them. This is all the more bitter when you consider the harshness with which the higher clergy persecutes people who violate church teachings. For example, homosexual church workers who don’t want to hide and conceal their identity forever, but want to live it out – in responsible, long-term partnerships. To this day, lesbian educators or gay pastoral workers risk their jobs if they openly admit to their partners, and perhaps even want to marry them. It is all the more courageous that many of them are now open about their identity and, protected by the many, are also putting pressure on the bishops, on Rome.
Crime is put into perspective, love is sanctioned? This has got to stop.