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April 16, 2019
Since the publication of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI’s 10 April letter on the abuse crisis, the German bishops’ news website Katholisch.de has published several harsh rebukes of the former Pope. For example, they accuse the Pope of causing a “schism,” of making “absurd” references to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, and also of “abusing” the very “topic of abuse.”
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has come to Benedict’s defense, rebuking the German moral theologians as “people who neither believe nor think.”
On April 10, Pope Benedict published his 6,000-word-long document, in which he discusses some of the roots of the current sex abuse crisis in the Church, and he thereby points to the moral relativism and laxity that entered the Catholic Church in the wake of the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the West.
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