How Pope Ratzinger Can Reform the Church With an Internal Affairs Unit

The present Pope Ratzinger has a difficult job. He was elevated from the position of clerk to a Polish pope of heroic stature. His tenancy was bound to be a letdown and his conduct of reaction and reform to the Catholic Commercial priest sex perversion problem requires a transparency and forthrightness he has difficulty with. Well, he isn't a Medici pope, so it isn't all bad. I will provide some paradigm forms to provide solutions to the infiltration of the commercial catholic priesthood by pedophiles.

The pope needs to form an internal affairs agency to investigate sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by the catholic commercial priesthood. Of course it would be far better if the Pope was simply a reformer like Martin Luther and would nominate that late priest for sainthood. Martin Luther believed a priesthood of believers should exist. I have written about how to create such a modern structure without a specialized, upper class commercial and hierarchical priesthood, yet that is a challenge that some brave future Pope with lots of chutzpa might try. Our good German Pope Ratzinger has yet a challenging task to accomplish in establishing a catholic Internal Affairs bureau to investigate sex corruptions charges by the exploited flock.

I would venture to guess that perhaps one priest of every 25 is an occasional pervert victimizing children. Plainly an objective board served with professional investigators needs to look into every particular charge to determine its veracity and then recommend objective actions such as suspension, referral to law enforcement agencies and dismissal.

If there is one catholic priest for each ten-thousand citizens generally, then there would be a thousand priests for each million people. There might be as many as 50 priestly perverts for each million souls in society, and perhaps three investigators with professional experience would be sufficient, along with staff support, to examine 50 cases annually. A society with a half a billion souls such as North America would need 1500 professional investigators and staff. Each continent of the world might need as many. The new Catholic Internal Affairs Sex Crimes Investigation Unit would then need hire about 10,000 investigators initially--and that could be a bargain in savings on future lawsuit settlements that would be avoid.

The throughput of catholic priests of course isn't a high turnover annual rate, so when the internal affairs unit process through the backlog and dismisses the guilty, their caseload number should decline. The existence of a just and competent anti-perversion unit will discourage the catholic commercial priesthood as a hangout for pederasts, and that would be helpful to the trust of the faithful. Of course in the absence of a Lutheran one-level priesthood of believers’ church, the devil has an inherent advantage in power relationships over others. It may be that none can relinquish the hierarchical advantage that is a holdover of ancient or medieval forms of social organization; one antipathetic to the cause of Christ as given in the Gospels.

Walking in the night from a train in Germany in December 1987, I reached a brick street and alley with a yellow streetlamp overhead dimly illuminating the scene. I saw in my mind's eye very plainly the crucified Christ carrying his cross. A German Pope can take upon himself the mission of creating an internal affairs department in order to protect the faithful from the increasing dissolution of the influence of evil.