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Vatican reacts to UN criticisms over clergy sex scandal; It was homosexual abuse not pedophilia

By ADF Alliance Alert

The Guardian: "The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was 'busy cleaning its own house' and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger. In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males . . . 'Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17.'" Related post at Catholic Culture: Vatican Official: Most Clerical Abuse Not Pedophilia, But Homosexual Abuse of Adolescents

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).