The word "systemic crisis" we may think first of the economic and financial world. that have the financial acrobats (and all private investors and politicians who have since been busy with speculation and with) the economy plunged into a crisis is beyond dispute. We have to get used to the term "systemic implications" for the difficulties of individual banks need. How determined and deeply canceled for this crisis to be drawn or already responded - or whether real consequences 'fail' simply had once been there. Law, there is agreement at best that there had been a severe crisis in the financial system.
For what we are witnessing within the Church, which is surprisingly strongly denied. The focus of the public perception is the Catholic Church, the most serious sexual abuse of children and young people entrusted tolerated for decades and the country in almost incredible extent, has played down and covered up - right up to the highest representatives of German Catholicism, see
Zollitsch . Nevertheless, the Catholic Church refuses steadfastly even begin to speak of a "systemic crisis". The recent pastoral letter of Pope
grants to the Irish bishops, although a debt, as well as the failures of individual and deplores the appalling tendencies of "secularism", which influenced our modern societies and the responsibility for sexual excesses are. In general the Pope seems more on the damage to their image of the Catholic Church as to the victims and the working up to be the obvious injustice. This would first of all, the relationship between pre-modern sexual morality, celibacy and hypocritical self-deceit uncover claim to power over individual people (auricular confession) and companies (Concordats) must. It just goes to the system, "Catholic Church," one here on the critical test. This system comes pre-democratic and pre-modern times and has a "reformation" and "education" is still going on. The movement "We Are Church
" rightly calls for the clarification of this "global structural problem" in the Catholic Church. is it just not only pre-modern fundamentalism in Islam, but - we can only register terrified - in the middle of the Christian religion, particularly corrosive and degrading to the victims in the Catholic Church as a whole, just as a system. The Pope and the bishops fear that open discussion of the critical system issues such as the plague. I just heard on the radio (BR), Bishop of Regensburg Mueller had compared the "attacks" and "media campaign" against the Catholic Church with the hostility and hate campaigns in Nazi Germany. That's strong stuff! The cartel of concealment and concealment, the 'organized crime' of Catholic sexual ethics and practices within the walls of its own very quickly becomes a real question of power, which seems to have noticed the Bishop of Regensburg. Can we actually in our modern, open societies have such an archaic, also privileged "system church afford? Do not be calculated with the same standards and into judgment as with all other social groups and associations? - It is time that the Catholic Church is taken as a bulwark of anti-democratic from the base of their pre-modern self-satisfied hypocrisy down.
have the way in this issue of sexual abuse and pre-modern religious environments to bear the Protestant churches of their pack, and it is pure luck that it is currently not the focus of public interest are, as had been present in Käßmann. Abuse cases, there are also plenty, both in the past, in nursing homes and care institutions of the Church Diakonia concerns (see the
guilt of the Hanover Church of 2008) as well as religious boarding schools and schools in regard to the present (see
the frightening messages a special school of the Evangelical Diakonia). The former headmaster of the boarding
"Odenwald School Gerold Becker was evangelical religion teacher. Despite the experience and lessons of the Reformation and the Enlightenment and Protestantism the old garment of self-righteous bigotry and narrowness of the naive and doctrinaire faith has not been stripped. It is also around the system to the system of Christian religion and church in modern times, in this era of open societies modern life and its values. Again, fundamentalism, violence, sexual exploitation and abuse are held in the middle area of the Christian churches. Church criticism because not enough, religious criticism is badly needed. Those who demand from Islam's willingness to change, to a "reconnaissance" and recognition of Western values of freedom, who should not have to start with themselves. The Christian churches still have a long way to go. Religion in the Modern Age is a religion in transition - or in decline. The decline of church morals we experience every day now.
