Oh brother...what hope does the Catholic Church have?

chelloveck · Feb 21, 2013

Oh brother...what hope does the Catholic Church have, if the Holy See only sees homosexual priests at the heart of its paedophile priest crisis???

Then, the conversation turned to the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal. Amanpour asked Turkson if it's possible the scandal, which swept across the U.S. and Europe over the past decade, could reach Africa.
"Not in the same proportion as we have seen in Europe," Turkson said. "Probably because African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency. Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa, homosexuality, or for that matter, any affair between two sexes of the same kind are not countenanced in our society. So, that cultural 'taboo,' that tradition has been there. It's helped to keep this out."

Cardinal Peter Turkson, Pope Contender, Suggests Gay Priests To Blame For Church Child Sex Abuse
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Oh man....If Cardinal Peter Turkson's comments about the Church's paedophilia scandals are anything to judge by, then his Papal tour of duty (if he gets elected) is likely to be as ineffectual as Ratzinger's.

Turkson's claims that priestly paedophilia is down to homosexual priests, and that somehow, african ethnic cultural traditions protect africans from predation by homosexual priests is absolutely outstanding! How such a person could be a serious contender for the headship of the world's largest global, multi national religious corporation beggars belief.

More priestly paedophila occurs in the "dark" continent than Turkson will concede, and it's not just confined to young boys.

"...The frenzy of international media reports that followed the revelations generally overlooked cases of sexual abuses concerning the Catholic Church in Africa; however, the continent is far from exempt from such practices.
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"I know that the Church in Africa suffers from the same evils,” said Buti Tlhagale, the Archbishop of Johannesburg, in reference to the painful scandals in the Church of Ireland, Germany and the USA.

"The bad behavior of priests in Africa has simply not been exposed by the media with the same prominence as in the rest of the world,” he said during a homily in April 2010, reported by Le Nouvel Observateur.

This was confirmed by the group Secularism is a Women’s Issue (SIAWA) in their May 16th 2010 entitled, “Pedophilia and the Catholic Priest: A Taboo in Africa”.

Because of the strong social taboo and lack of publicity, pedophilia among African clergy seems like less of a problem. A Congolese priest of the Theology Faculty of Kinshasa challenged this theory, however.

"Within the Church, we are not allowed to speak," he said. The situation is embarrassing and does not play the game of transparency. Hypothetically, there have been cases in Africa.

Until very recently, despite the Pope’s recognition of the "deep shame" and "gravely immoral behavior", and an acknowledgment that priests and bishops had resigned and victims were compensated, very little was done to bring to court and punish the clerics.

This was because parts of Catholic Canon law, according to expert Nicholas Cafardi on npr.org, “requires sufficient proof of guilt and a trial to protect the rights of the accused.”

That canonical system was seen by many bishops as too complicated to use, Cafardi said.

This reluctance to denounce clergy abuses knew few exceptions in Africa. In May 2010, it was reported by afrik.com that in Uganda, the minister of Ethics and Integrity Nsaba Buturo James called the people of his country to fight against Catholic priests whose moral values were “more than doubtful”. ...."
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Africans quietly confront Church scandal | The Media Project
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(my emphasis - Chello)

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