There are a number of problems with having two popes, one retired and the other active. The retired one may forget he is no longer relevant and he no longer speaks for the church.

It is clear to most people that human sexual predators, like animal predators, seek out the weak, or those more easily available. They do not hunt and chase if their prey is supplied.

Because of the male-centric structure of the Catholic Church, boys were, and still are, convenient prey, while in other churches where women have a presence more so than in the Catholic Church, the victims are more mixed.

Celibacy might have been more bearable when people died of old age in their forties, but we live longer now, and that makes it a bit more difficult.

Pope Benedict XVI, who retired in 2013 (Did he have to give up the Holy Spirit or does he share it with Pope Francis), recently published a letter blaming the continuing Catholic clergy abuse crisis on the sexual revolution, developments in theology following the Second Vatican Council, and society’s aversion to speaking about God.

Yeah, because no abuse took place prior to the 1960s.

And since they get blamed by religious people for floods, tornadoes, wild fires, earthquakes, and straight people’s divorces, Benedict also claimed, with nothing to back the claim,  that “homosexual cliques” once existed in seminaries, which he said “acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries.”

The one thing he did offer as proof of this was a seminary in southern Germany where aspiring priests lived with candidates for the lay ministry, some of whom were married or had girlfriends.

And here’s what initiated those cliques.

“At the common meals, seminarians and pastoral specialists ate together, the married among the laymen sometimes accompanied by their wives and children, and on occasion by their girlfriends.”

That’s it?

He does not address structural issues that abetted abuse cover-ups when Benedict was himself head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal office for 24-years.

His causes of this modern day problem include societal “mental collapse” brought on by the protests of 1968 and the unsupported and hysterical claim that the sexual revolution declared pedophilia to be “allowed and appropriate”, which is so far outside the truth.

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 “Among the freedoms that the Revolution of 1968 sought to fight for was … all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms.”

When I read this line,

“The mental collapse was also linked to a propensity for violence. That is why sex films were no longer allowed on airplanes because violence would break out among the small community of passengers.”

I googled “sex films no longer allowed on airplanes” and got a series of links to porno films set on airplanes.

Watched one.

Thanks, Benedict.

The letter was released less than two months after Pope Francis hosted a first-of-its-kind summit in February on clergy abuse with heads of the world’s Catholic bishops’ conferences and leaders of religious orders which he opened by stating its purpose was for the Catholic Church to establish new “concrete and effective measures” to confront clergy sexual abuse.

Regardless what was discussed or decided, Benedict’s letter asked,

“Why did pedophilia reach such proportions? Ultimately, the reason is the absence of God.”

Creepy priests and a structure that hid them, protected them, and just moved them to other parishes with nothing said as to why they were transferred or without any steps to prevent further abuse are off the hook, and, apparently, a petulant God showed us a thing or two for not giving Him the societal spotlight by letting his employees rape and molest children.

Bring back the medieval church, the above the law immunity, the lack of accountability to its members, the good ol’ days of secrecy with the mass in Latin with the priest’s back turned, and molestation without limits.

Oh, and the funny hats, glorious robes, and, for the pope, Egyptian fans and the Roman style litter chair.

Or, Get off my lawn!

I  wonder if there are those occasions he suddenly finds himself standing under the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica and wonders why he went in there.