ROME
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BY HILARY WHITE, ROME CORRESPONDENT
Thu Feb 06, 2014
ROME, February 6, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian Catholic commentators have blasted the February 5 report from the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child that demanded the Catholic Church change or ignore its teachings on human sexuality and abortion. Writing in the Catholic opinion daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, religion expert and sociologist Massimo Introvigne blasted the Committee for issuing “indiscriminate accusations” based on “statistical folklore” from outdated and biased sources.
The report on the Vatican City State’s compliance to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Introvigne wrote, “is evidence of how the tragedy of pedophile priests is used as an excuse and a cudgel to attack the Catholic Church.” It enjoins the Church “‘urgently’ to change its doctrine on homosexuality, abortion and contraception, and to rely upon ‘politically correct’ expert committees even for the interpretation of Sacred Scripture,” he said today.
In the name of protecting children from sexual abuse, the report demands that the Church drop its anthropological understanding of the complementarity of the sexes and its teaching on sexual purity. It “invited” the Church to “review Canon Law” to see what circumstances would “allow” abortion, contraception and the kind of radical “sex education” that normalizes homosexuality.
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