{"id":524916,"date":"2010-04-12T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12892"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:59:40","slug":"homosexuality-not-celibacy-linked-to-pedophilia-says-vatican-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524916","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuality, not celibacy, linked to pedophilia, says Vatican #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12893\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12893\" title=\"bertone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/04\/bertone-350x232-custom.jpg\" alt=\"bertone\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone during a news conference in Santiago April 12, 2010\/Ivan Alvarado<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is homosexuality, not celibacy, that is linked to pedophilia, the  Vatican&#8217;s Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-47635420100412\">Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said on Monday<\/a>,  seeking to defuse the sex scandal that has battered the Roman Catholic  Church.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to Chile, Bertone, dubbed the Deputy Pope, also  said Pope Benedict would soon take more surprising initiatives regarding  the sex abuse scandal but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shown that there  is no link between celibacy and pedophilia but many others have shown, I  have recently been told, that there is a relationship between  homosexuality and pedophilia,&#8221;<\/em> he told a news conference in Santiago.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This pathology is one that touches all categories of people,  and priests to a lesser degree in percentage terms,&#8221;<\/em> he said. <em>&#8220;The  behavior of the priests in this case, the negative behavior, is very  serious, is scandalous.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bertone&#8217;s visit to Chile comes as the Catholic Church has  been buffeted by scandals concerning sexual abuse of children &#8212; most of  them boys &#8212; by priests. There also have been allegations of cover-ups  and even that the Pope mishandled cases when he was a bishop in Germany  and a Vatican official before his election in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this? Is homosexuality to blame for pedophilia? Or did the Catholic Church ordain too many men who were sexually immature and fatally attracted to children at their emotional level?<\/p>\n<div id=\"photoCaption\"><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at          RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone during a news conference in Santiago April 12, 2010\/Ivan Alvarado It is homosexuality, not celibacy, that is linked to pedophilia, the Vatican&#8217;s Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said on Monday, seeking to defuse the sex scandal that has battered the Roman Catholic Church. On a visit to Chile, Bertone, dubbed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}