Fundamental Change Coming to Catholic Church
April 21st, 2010 by David Dansker
It has taken some time, but high ranking officials in the Roman Catholic Church are beginning to admit what has been obvious to many for a long time. The Catholic Church’s sex scandal is not so much a problem with pedophilia as it is a problem with homosexuality. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, announced as much recently in Santiago, Chile. In a news conference, Bertone said: “Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia…. others have demonstrated… that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is the problem.”1 With that admission by the pope’s number two man, the Vatican for the first time acknowledges that homosexuals are the predominate sexual predators within the priesthood. Of course, this could have been deduced by them many years ago without the opinions of psychologists, and recent developments show that it probably had been recognized in Rome long ago and covered up. This shift by church hierarchy to addressing the real problem did not come by way of guilty conscience, but from outside pressure.
