John Allen skriver i dag om g\u00e5rsdagens tale til den romerske kurien, der pave Benedikt bl.a. tok opp sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5let om seksuelle misbruk i Kirken. Dette misbruket har kommet bl.a. pga en feilaktig moralteologisk metode kalt ‘proporsjonalisme:<\/p>\n
In effect, Benedict asserted that proportionalism shaped a climate in which it was possible to justify pedophilia and the sexual exploitation of minors, even by priests.<\/p>\n
As Benedict noted, \u201cproportionalism\u201d and its variants were explicitly rejected by Pope John Paul II in his 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor (paragraphs 75-76), in which the late pope insisted that Catholic moral tradition regards some acts as \u201cintrinsically evil,\u201d which can never be justified by a \u201cproportionate reason.\u201d<\/p>\n
The danger of proportionalism has long figured prominently among Benedict\u2019s \u201ctalking points\u201d on the sex abuse crisis.<\/p>\n
On his way to Australia in the summer of 2008, for example, Benedict targeted the moral theory by name, claiming that \u201cwith proportionalism, it was possible to think for some subjects \u2013 one could also be pedophilia \u2013 that in some proportion they could be a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
This morning, Benedict XVI returned to the same point, though without directly invoking the term. Here\u2019s what the pope said, in the English translation of his address provided by the Vatican Press Office:<\/p>\n
«In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children. This, however, was part of a fundamental perversion of the concept of ethos. It was maintained \u2013 even within the realm of Catholic theology \u2013 that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a \u2018better than\u2019 and a \u2018worse than\u2019. Nothing is good or bad in itself. Everything depends on the circumstances and on the end in view. Anything can be good or also bad, depending upon purposes and circumstances. Morality is replaced by a calculus of consequences, and in the process it ceases to exist. The effects of such theories are evident today. Against them, Pope John Paul II, in his 1993 Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor, indicated with prophetic force in the great rational tradition of Christian ethos the essential and permanent foundations of moral action. Today, attention must be focused anew on this text as a path in the formation of conscience. It is our responsibility to make these criteria audible and intelligible once more for people today as paths of true humanity, in the context of our paramount concern for mankind.»<\/em><\/p>\n
Since cure follows diagnosis, Benedict\u2019s assessment implies that eradicating the influence of proportionalism, along with any moral theory which denies the intrinsic evil of certain acts<\/strong>, should be a core element of the church\u2019s \u201cexit strategy.\u201d … <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Les John Allens artikkel her<\/a>, og hele pave Benedikts tale her<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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