POLAND
Daily Mail (UK)
The top Catholic bishop in Poland has apologised for blaming divorce for encouraging paedophilia in comments that the church have described as ‘a slip of the tongue’.
Archbishop Jozef Michalik sparked outrage when he said earlier this week that sex abuse was the result of people ‘looking for love’, and appeared to suggest that divorce could be just as harmful to children as paedophilia.
But he has since apologised for the anger caused by his comments and claimed that they were taken out of context.
After his comments sparked fury among Polish social media users, the episcopate called a press conference in a bid to try and calm the situation.
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