RELIGION: Cardinal Burke: Pope must ‘take action’ to clean up ‘homosexual culture’ in Church

Friday, August 17, 2018

The never-ending Catholic child abuse scandal is never going away, and has recently gotten much worse.  Here is one Cardinal's idea for dealing with the issue:

Cardinal Raymond Burke: It was clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men. There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this. Now it seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. It is of course a tendency that is disordered.

I think it has been considerably aggravated by the anti-life culture in which we live, namely the contraceptive culture that separates the sexual act from the conjugal union. The sexual act has no meaning whatsoever except between a man and a woman in marriage since the conjugal act is by its very nature for procreation. I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church, especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.

Read the full article here:  Cardinal Burke: Pope must ‘take action’ to clean up ‘homosexual culture’ in Church

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