What happened?
pope emeritus Benedict XVI has published a 6,000-word essay on the abuse crisis, tracing its historical roots and arguing that we “must learn again to recognise God as the foundation of our life instead of leaving Him aside”.
Most controversially, Benedict argued that the moral revolution of the 1960s had brought about a “mental collapse” in which paedophilia was “diagnosed as allowed and appropriate”. In the ’60s, Benedict wrote, “an egregious event occurred, on a scale unprecedented in history … the previously normative standards regarding sexuality collapsed entirely.”
