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Quoted here, Archbishop Chaput reflects on Benedict XVI's recent essay. https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/04/benedict-and-the-scandal Writing nearly half a century ago (1970), the Italian Catholic philosopher Augusto Del Noce noted that I often find myself envying unbelievers: Does not contemporary history provide abundant evidence that Catholics are a mentally inferior species? Their rush to conform to the opinion about Catholicism held by rationalist secularists is stunning. Those words from his essay “The Ascendance of Eroticism” open Del Noce’s brilliant reflections—part analysis, part prophecy—on Europe’s then-current sexual revolution. At a time when a young priest named Joseph Ratzinger was predicting a smaller, more hard-pressed, but purer Church of the future in his 1969–70 German and Vatican radio interviews, Del Noce was explaining how it would happen. He foresaw that “the decisive battle against Christianity [can] be fought only at the le...

Anthony van Dyck, Suffer Little Children To Come Unto Me Pope Emeritus Benedict has trained his brilliant mind on the topic of the abuse scandal. Retaining that luminous clarity for which he was well known, Papa Benedict identifies several trajectories (categorized by yours truly, summarized by including phrases from Benedict's essay): A forced loss of innocence: all out sexual freedom. The collapse of moral theology. The dissolution of the moral teaching authority of the Church and t he breakdown of priestly formation: the aftermath of the 1960s. The question of pedophilia: " Only where Faith no longer determines the actions of man are such offenses possible." The failure of the alter-Church. The future is a restoration of liturgical integrity. The Mystery of the Church: the triumph of God. In Benedict XVI's words: My work is divided into three parts. In the first part, I aim to present briefly the wider social context of the question, wi...