POLAND
GlobalPost
AFP
The top cleric in Poland’s Roman Catholic church said Tuesday that parents share the blame for certain cases of paedophilia, including those involving Catholic priests.
The comment comes amid mounting allegations of paedophilia involving priests in Poland, one of Europe’s most heavily Catholic countries where loyalty to the church is beginning to wane.
“Many of these cases of (sexual) molestation could be avoided given a healthy relationship between parents,” Archbishop Jozef Michalik, head of Poland’s Episcopate told the Polish PAP news agency Tuesday in Warsaw.
“We often hear that this inappropriate attitude (paedophilia), or abuse, manifests itself when a child is looking for love,” Michalik said.
“It (the child) clings, it searches. It gets lost itself and then draws another person into this”, Michalik said.
While condemning paedophile priests “whom neither the Church nor anyone else can accept,” Michalik also spoke out against divorce as being harmful to children.
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