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Article originally prepared on : 14 April 2010
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Description: Another day, another development in the Catholic sex abuse story. Now, high-ranking Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is pointing his
Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true. That is the problem.
According to research, he's right and wrong: right on celibacy, wrong on homosexuality.
On homosexuality
After the U.S. clergy abuse scandal in2002, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned a multi-year study conducted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Results reported in2009 suggested that access to young boys, not homosexual orientation, was largely responsible for the high percentage of male abuse cases. John Jay researcher Margaret Smith told bishops Nov. 17:
We do not find a connection between homosexual identity and the increased likelihood of subsequent abuse from the data that we have right now ...It's important to separate the sexual identity and the behavior. Someone can commit sexual acts that might be of a homosexual nature but not have a homosexual identity.
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