Homosexuality is to blame for sexual abuse, not Catholic church, claims German cardinal

January 5, 2019 by sd

From the London Telegraph:

German cardinal on Friday provoked anger and controversy when he claimed the Catholic church was not responsible for sexual abuse by its clerics, and instead sought to pin the blame on homosexuality.

“What has happened in the church is no different from what is happening in society as a whole,” Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said. “The real scandal is that the Catholic church hasn’t distinguished itself from the rest of society.” A study commissioned by the German Bishops Conference and published last year found that more than 3,600 children were sexually abused by Catholic clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014. But Cardinal Brandmüller claimed that only a “vanishingly small number” of clergy had committed abuses. He said the real problem was homosexuality and claimed it is “statistically proven” that there is a link between homosexuality and abuse. [For Full Story]

From Crux News:

He argued the real scandal was that church representatives hadn’t been different from the rest of society.

The cardinal also argued it was “statistically proven” that the clerical abuse crisis was linked to homosexuality. “It is no less unrealistic to forget or conceal that 80 percent of cases of abuse in the church environment affected male adolescents, not children,”  Brandmüller said.

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