@jamielmanson nails it. One telling passage: where B16 deplores seminaries where seminarians had to dine with laymen, their wives, children and—horrors—their “girlfriends.”
Pope Benedict XVI's letter achieves something he likely did not intend: He demonstrates precisely how the institutional church got into its current psychosexual mess. ncr.media/2Gcip7L
Apr 12, 2019 · 11:54 PM UTC
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