Breitbart reports the following.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has denied a correlation between homosexuality and clerical sex abuse, calling it a “serious and scientifically untenable association.”
Bill Donohue, a sociologist and president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has noted that regardless of his intentions, Cardinal Parolin is factually mistaken. The most extensive study ever undertaken of clerical sex abuse, conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, found that a full 81 percent of victims of sexual abuse by priests were males.
And since all priests are biological males, 4 out of 5 victims of sexual abuse by priests were abused by homosexuals. Many of these were pedophiles.
Which isn't particularly surprising when you ask yourself what subgroup of men will be most willing to forego marriage and heterosexual relations more generally? For whom is it no particular sacrifice?
Historically, the answer was homosexuals. More recently, in an era of gay pride, the most likely group has narrowed to pedophile homosexuals. That is an awkward reality for the Church.
