VATICAN CITY
The Raw Story
DAVID FERGUSON
10 OCT 2014
The former Archbishop of St. Louis and current Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, Cardinal Raymond Burke said in an interview published Thursday that families have a responsibility to protect their children from exposure to LGBT people. Family members or not, he said, people who “suffer from same-sex attraction” are “inherently disordered” and their relationships are “always and everywhere wrong, evil.”
David Badash at The New Civil Rights Movement reported that Burke made the series of bigoted statements in an interview published Thursday on antichoice website LifeSiteNews.com. …
In July, Burke’s former diocese — the Archdiocese of St. Louis — settled out of court with a woman known as Jane Doe 92, who alleged that the church hierarchy enabled and shielded from prosecution a priest who molested her from the age of 5 to the age of 9.
As part of the discovery process in the Jane Doe suit, the Missouri Supreme Court forced the St. Louis diocese to hand over a list of all of its priests who have been accused of sexual misconduct with children.
The list is sealed, but court records show “a matrix of 240 complaints against 115 priests and other church employees dating back decades.”
Jane Doe’s sex abuse case was only the second suit against the Catholic church in St. Louis history to make it to trial.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Burke’s former archdiocese “has spent more than $10 million on costs related to sexual abuse since 2004, according to its 2013 annual report.”
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