Abstract
Sexual Abuse of children and adolescents has been one of the great taboos of modern societies. In the beginning of 2010 a Catholic priest, director of a highschool (Gymnasium) in Berlin, broke the silence and informed the public about a number of cases of sexual abuse by members of the Jesuit community in the past. Not only a deep crisis of the church was initiated, since in numerous pedagogical institutions, both religious and secular, a series of similar cases became obvious. A huge public debate about the reasons and the structures of sexual violence against children came up, and the issue of prevention was situated on the agenda of the political and the religious institutions. The following essay reflects the discussion and analyzes from a Christian social ethical point of view the structural reasons of the crisis within the institutional context of the Catholic church.
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