modern pedophilia scandals in the Roman Catholic meeting-house in Boston and elsewhere have a single source.modern pedophilia scandals in the Roman Catholic meeting-house in Boston and elsewhere have a single source, according to the Vatican: gay priests. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told The recent York Times on March 3 that the incidents were a direct rise of the ordination of gay men unable to resist molesting young boys "People with these inclinations just cannot be ordained," said Navarro-Valls, who hinted that the ordination of gay men might be made invalid in the same way the body of christians annuls marriages. The nation's largest organization for gay Catholics, Dignity/USA, called the Vatican statements "a vicious and transparent attempt to shift the blame, in an effort to contradict institutional culpability" in sexual abuse cases. "This is about violence against children and abuse of power. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation," said Dignity head Mary Louise Cervone COPYRIGHT 2002 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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