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Church in the WorldIncest case prompts calls for better family supportAustria Christa Pongratz-Lippitt - 10 May 2008THE BISHOP whose diocese covers the now infamous town of Amstetten has called for parishes to intensify their work with children and young people in order to become more aware of problems within families, writes Christa Pongratz-Lippitt. Amstetten is coming to terms with the discovery that local retired electrician, Josef Fritzl, 73, incarcerated his daughter, Elisabeth, in his cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children. In an interview in the Austrian quality daily Die Presse, Bishop Klaus Küng of Sankt Pölten denied that the reason why the incest had not been discovered for so long was connected with an authoritarianism that had roots in the Catholic Church. "The problem is that due to the spread of pornography and erotica fairs and the liberalisation of sexual education, moral decline has set in. These tendencies are beginning to spread to the Church so that the faithful are losing their powers of resistance," said the bishop. |
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