A reckoning with Roman Catholic sexual morality and its defenders
“The Roman Catholic Church is an abuse cover-up organisation!” Wolfgang F. Rothe
The ultra-current non-fiction book on the abuse debate: a priest speaks clearly about abuse in the Roman Catholic church - Roman Catholic sexual morals are in the dock as well as the perpetrators.
Wolfgang F. Rothe, priest in a Catholic parish, had a bad experience a few years ago: he was the victim of an abuse of power by his bishop. It is only now that he finds the strength to tell his story. However, his report is more than just another victim’s story from the Roman Catholic Church. The doctor of theology and ecclesiastic law describes the thousands of cases of abuse by priests as a systematic failure on the part of the Roman Catholic Church.
With its obsessive fixation on the topic of sexuality or sexual morals (including rejecting homosexuality, maintaining celibacy, interfering in interdenominational marriages, no communion for those who remarry and the subordinate role of women in the Roman Catholic Church), the church makes itself guilty of supporting the abuse. Conservative circles who fight any liberal inclination of the church in matters of sexuality are responsible.
Rothe is convinced that improvement is only possible when the influence of these circles is curtailed and the Roman Catholic Church can depart from its dated sexual morals.
