Hans Küng? Bishop Spong about Hans Küng and the RCC?

Question

Interview with BeliefNet.com: Hans Küng said Vatican knew for decades about sexually abusive priests & the bishops' mishandling of them.

Hans Küng, a quoted theologian of the 20th century; A professor of Catholic Theology at University of Tübingen, was one of the clear leaders of the Second Vatican Council that began Reformation of the Catholic Church under Pope John 23rd. He was later removed from the position as Catholic theologian in a purge of liberal thinkers instigated by John Paul II & carried out by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now rules Vatican as Benedict XVI.

My guess is both abuse and cover-ups were quite systemic, far more prevalent than yet been admitted or faced. Perhaps that's the clue to their allowing abuse to continue. If it was as widespread as we believe, it must have involved people in high places, including bishops, archbishops, cardinals.

A thorough investigation and a complete and honest admission might well have constituted so severe a threat to the life and integrity of that noble institution that they deemed their needs better served by dishonesty than honesty, by cover-up than admission. Of course, in the long run, the integrity of the Church itself is eroded and the exodus of members that begins as a trickle and ends with a flood.

Your comments?

Answer 1

Eroding indeed. Its like a bucket of water with a leak.

Answer 2

Yes, and just think, that in times past, with less scrutiny, how rampant this practice was.

In two thousand years, hundreds of thousands of children have been molested by these Priests, and then made to feel guilty about it.

The Church should wither away in Shame.

I would not cry.