Thursday, November 28, 2019

Schönborn spells out shocking reality of clerical sex abuse

Schönborn spells out shocking reality of clerical sex abuse

LONDON (ENGLAND)
The Tablet
Nov. 27, 2019
By Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
Clerical abuse is a “massive reality” in the Church caused among other factors by “closed systems” and the overinflated authority of priests, according to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn.
In a 50-minute lecture at Vienna University, one of a weekly series the University is holding on “The Sexual Abuse of Minors: Crime and Responsibility” in the winter semester, Cardinal Schönborn described in detail how, after listening to abuse victims over the past 20 or so years, he had come to the conclusion that clerical spiritual and sexual abuse – but above all the abuse of clerical power – was a “massive reality” in the Catholic Church.

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