{"id":67,"date":"2010-04-13T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-cardinal-links-homosexuality-to-pedophile-priest-problem.html"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T14:30:00","slug":"pope-watch-cardinal-links-homosexuality-to-pedophile-priest-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-cardinal-links-homosexuality-to-pedophile-priest-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Watch: Cardinal Links Homosexuality to Pedophile Priest Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,351369,00.html\">Pope Benedict&#8217;s previous&nbsp;comments distinguishing&nbsp;between pedophilia and homosexuality<\/a>, the Vatican&#8217;s secretary of state has just come out citing homosexuality &#8211; as opposed to celibacy &#8212;&nbsp;as&nbsp;a related factor&nbsp;in the Catholic Church&#8217;s clergy sex abuse crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-04-13-catholic-abuse-gay-blame_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone made the comments during a news conference <\/a>yesterday in Chile, where one of the church&#8217;s abuse cases involves a priest having sex with young girls. (No irony there. Also, I don&#8217;t suppose that, although the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-vatican-vs-new-york-times.html\">Vatican is certainly keeping tabs on The New York Times these days<\/a>, he caught the NYT magazine&#8217;s recent cover story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/magazine\/04animals-t.html\">gay birds and bunnies<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/04\/13\/vatican-cardinal-claims-homosexuality-associated-with-pedophilia\/\">Vatican Cardinal Claims Homosexuality Associated With Pedophilia<\/a> (Politics Daily)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=31137\">Anecdotes, data and definitions <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Pope Benedict&#8217;s previous&nbsp;comments distinguishing&nbsp;between pedophilia and homosexuality, the Vatican&#8217;s secretary of state has just come out citing homosexuality &#8211; as opposed to celibacy &#8212;&nbsp;as&nbsp;a related factor&nbsp;in the Catholic Church&#8217;s clergy sex abuse crisis. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone made the comments during a news conference yesterday in Chile, where one of the church&#8217;s abuse cases involves&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Watch: Cardinal Links Homosexuality to Pedophile Priest Problem - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-cardinal-links-homosexuality-to-pedophile-priest-problem.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Watch: Cardinal Links Homosexuality to Pedophile Priest Problem - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite Pope Benedict&#8217;s previous&nbsp;comments distinguishing&nbsp;between pedophilia and homosexuality, the Vatican&#8217;s secretary of state has just come out citing homosexuality &#8211; as opposed to celibacy &#8212;&nbsp;as&nbsp;a related factor&nbsp;in the Catholic Church&#8217;s clergy sex abuse crisis. 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