MEXICO
Fox News Latino
A Mexican archbishop is in hot water after making a statement calling abortion a much more serious offense than the rape of children by priests.
Fabio Martínez Castilla, the Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, said during a homily at the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Marcos that when children are sexually abused “their future is dying,” but that it doesn’t compare with abortion because “it is murder.”
“Qualitatively, abortion is much more serious than the rape of children by priests,” Martínez Castilla said, adding though that “both quantitatively do much harm and deserve punishment.”
Clarifying his comments, Martínez Castilla said that priests found molesting children should not be forgiven, but instead imprisoned and banned from the Church. He added priests shouldn’t be targeted because of the sexual abuse scandals that have haunted the Catholic Church over the last decade, but that “teachers, politicians, doctors and anyone who goes against the goodness and freedom of a child should be punished”.
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