News reports on April 14 and 15, 2010, reported a statement by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone that has created a minor uproar:

            “Many psychologists, many psychiatrists have demonstrated there exists no relationship between celibacy and pedophilia,” Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican Secretary of state, said in Santiago, Chile on April 12. “But many others have demonstrated, and have told me recently, that there is a link between homosexuality and pedophilia. This is true, this is the problem.” (Agence France-Presse). Canada’s National Post actually summed up the issue accurately in its headline: “Homosexuality to blame for abuse crisis: top cardinal,” Nat. Post, April 14, 2010, page A1.

            As became immediately clear from the context of the remarks, Cardinal Bertone was asserting first, that priestly sex abuse has no connection to priestly celibacy. Then he made the mistake, however, of using the media’s current terminology for priestly sex abuse, namely “pedophilia.”

Clergy sex abuse is not pedophilia

            Clergy sex abuse continues to be described erroneously by the media as pedophilia. Pedophilia (a form of sodomy) is sexual abuse of little children—boys and girls—mostly between the ages of 3 to 6 or 7. Only a tiny percentage of sexual abuse cases among Catholic clergy was of this nature.

            The large majority (over 80%) of the clergy abuse case in the recent past in North America—Canada and the United States—have been found to be with adolescents, mostly boys between the ages of 12 to 18 years of age, the ages from which altar boys are drawn. This is not pedophilia.

            The psychologists have further subdivided sex abuse of this age group, calling it ephebophilia (homosexual attraction to adolescent boys), but this, of course is homosexuality. Consequently, Cardinal Bertone is correct in saying that the true link between clergy and sex abuse cases in the Church is homosexuality. Moreover, the time sequence confirms it.

            Although there were homosexual clergy, earlier, the great explosion came at a time when the homosexual culture began to make inroads into the general society, namely in the nineteen fifties and sixties. In the Catholic Church homosexual behaviour especially advanced with the false and dissenting interpretations of the Second Vatican Council which led many priests and bishops to abandon traditional asceticism and prayer life; with it ecclesiastical discipline and Episcopal oversight practically collapsed.

            When this discipline began to be restored in the 1980’s and 1990’s, priestly abuse of adolescents began to decline. Today it has practically vanished. The person in the Church who is most responsible for helping bring about the renewal of opposing homosexuality is Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.

            Needless to say, the overwhelming pro-homosexual media of today denounce Cardinal Bertone. But the Cardinal has merely expressed what many people have known and accepted for a long time.

            The “gay” community has from the beginning promoted this kind of distorted behaviour. The disgusting “man love boy love man” movement has been an intrinsic part of the homosexual activists’ lifestyle. They gloat about it.

Globe & Mail

            When the Canadian newspaper Toronto’s Globe & Mail denounced the Cardinal editorially (“A Cardinal’s sin,” April 15, 2010), hypocrisy incorporated itself opened its mouth. For fifty years this newspaper has advocated relentlessly the killing of the unborn, always denouncing the Catholic Church for its “insolence” in opposing it. Equally relentlessly it has argued in favour of legal equality for the disordered homosexual lifestyle. It has made a sport of ridiculing the Catholic Church, while its agnostic and atheist owners and staff kick down every traditional moral standard in the country. And the politically correct ruling class has fallen for it time and again.

            It is high time that Canadians start fighting back. Catholics should not advertise in this paper. They should not allow its anti-Christian ideology to influence their own thinking. They should fight its pernicious influence.