SOUTH AFRICA
The Sun
By JACK LOSH
THE new Pope faces more child sex abuse controversy after a cardinal today branded paedophilia an illness NOT a crime.
Catholic Archbishop of Durban Wilfrid Fox Napier defended paedophiles who had been abused as children, saying they were not criminally responsible for their actions as somebody “who chooses to do something like that”.
The South African – among the 115 cardinals at the Vatican who elected Pope Francis earlier this week – called paedophilia a “psychological disorder”.
Speaking out just days after the papal conclave, Cardinal Napier said: “What do you do with disorders? You have got to try and put them right.
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