Open AccessWeeds Among the Wheat
Author(s) -
Schumacher Meinolf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
crosscurrents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1939-3881
pISSN - 0011-1953
DOI - 10.1111/cros.12376
Subject(s) - sermon , fish <actinopterygii> , theology , history , philosophy , fishery , biology
Pope Benedict and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church D uring his visit to Germany in September 2011, then pope Benedict XVI met with victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and was expected to address this subject publicly. He did so only indirectly in a sermon in the Berlin Olympic Stadium, speaking in a soft voice about the “painful experience that there are good and bad fish, wheat and weeds in the Church.” Almost eight years later, the pope, meanwhile retired, returns to these metaphors in a comprehensive article entitled “The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse”: