{"id":592,"date":"2010-03-21T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2010-03-21T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T19:45:07","slug":"romes-sex-abuses-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/romes-sex-abuses-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome&#8217;s Sex Abuses &#8211; What to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/vintage-kung.php\">Carl Trueman<\/a> points us to Hans Kung (a Roman Catholic theologian) and his recent critique of the Catholic church (critique from within, mind you):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hans Kung has fired a fine salvo in the discussion of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.\u00c2\u00a0 As usual, his take on his own church is far more astute and perceptive than the many rose-tinted interpretations that are the stock-in-trade of prominent American evangelicals.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read it\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2244bb;\" href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/accountability\/ratzingers-responsibility\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 For those with stronger stomachs (you have been warned) Christopher Hitchens has also something to say on the matter\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2244bb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2247861\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 Is the Reformation over?\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope not.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 American evangelicalism may be, to use Frank Schaeffer&#8217;s phrase, addicted to mediocrity; there is no evidence as yet that it is addicted to child rape and cover ups of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Checking my own legal responsibilities at Westminster [Theological Seminary], it would appear that, if child abuse was taking place on campus with my knowledge, and I did not immediately inform the police, I would be in serious legal difficulties &#8212; and that&#8217;s just the legal situation, before we even get to what my moral responsibilities might be.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 At this point, to use the British terminology, one has to ask why the Pope isn&#8217;t down at the local constabulary, helping the police with their inquiries?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Trueman points us to Hans Kung (a Roman Catholic theologian) and his recent critique of the Catholic&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/romes-sex-abuses-what-to-do\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}