{"id":476,"date":"2010-04-01T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=476"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:07:25","slug":"pominent-catholic-theologians-call-popes-response-to-abuse-scandal-inadequte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Pominent Catholic Theologians Call Pope&#8217;s Response to Abuse Scandal Inadequte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D476&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>Paul Knitter, now teaching at Union Seminary in New York, suggests that the only way out of the current mess is confession, followed by bringing an end to the celibacy rule.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unionindialogue.org\/paulknitter\/2010\/03\/21\/your-holiness-let%e2%80%99s-make-a-deal\/\"> For\u00a0Knitter&#8217;s full commentary. <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hans K\u00fcng, writing in the National Catholic Reporter, makes a similar point, while adding, more pointedly, that the Pope has been the leading figure in the church&#8217;s cover up of the scandal over a period of many decades.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/accountability\/ratzingers-responsibility\">For the full article in NCR.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D476&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Knitter, now teaching at Union Seminary in New York, suggests that the only way out of the current mess is confession, followed by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70,85],"tags":[421,112,111],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-topics","category-papacy","tag-papacy","tag-pedophelia","tag-sex-scandal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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