SHERMAN OAKS (CA)
Daily Wire
January 7, 2019
By Paul Bois
A German Catholic Cardinal is taking heavy fire for blaming the preponderance of male-on-male sexual abuse in the Catholic Church on homosexual priests and bishops.
Speaking to Germany’s DPA news agency just a few days prior to his 90th birthday, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said the homosexual nature of the Catholic sex abuse crisis has been “statistically proven.”
“What has happened in the church is no different from what is happening in society as a whole,” Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said. “The real scandal is that the Catholic church hasn’t distinguished itself from the rest of society.”
The Cardinal added that society “forgets or covers up the fact that 80% of cases of sexual assault in the church involved male youths not children” while noting that only a “vanishingly small number” of Catholic clergy had committed abuse between the 1940’s up until the 2000s.
According to The Telegraph, Cardinal Brandmüller’s comments were immediately and harshly condemned across the social media sphere and on homosexual news outlets, accusing the Catholic clergyman of inciting hatred against LGBT people.
“What a shameful way for the Catholic Church to relativise guilt and defame homosexuals. Disgraceful,” Ulf Poschardt, the editor of Welt newspaper, wrote on Twitter.
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