Vatican Abuse Summit: Homosexuality "Does Not" Predispose To Sin

...and technically he's correct. A seminarian, who is legally an adult, in theory has the option of refusing -even though in a practical sense, the seminarian is at one of the most vulnerable points in his life, both temporally and spiritually. A minor, by contrast, who is also at an equally vulnerable point in life legally doesn't have the same ability to consent. Archbishop Scicluna is demonstrating the fine legal acumen that has marked The Church's official response to the abuse scandal from the beginning.

His answer stays with in a hair's breath of remaining correct in the eyes of man yet in the eyes of Scripture and the last two thousand years of Church teachings based on that Scripture is utterly and damnably wrong. It has EVERYTHING to do with the sexual abuse of minors, particularly male minors.

Why CatMuse... I'm shocked. whatever gave you such a bizarre idea? This is no different than Papa Fransisco's famous "tango Mass": It's entertainment for a sympathetic audience (i.e. the media and those within the Chruch who've subscribed to his personality-cult). Behold! He's "doing" something about it! There's a synod, see? Wow! A real, live, gen-u-wine synod! They're gonna draft some really official sounding documents printed on that gorgeous Vatican stationary which proves they're doing something.

Now we can all go back to "loving the church as it is" and equating anyone who raises valid accusations of administrative cover-ups with satan. Sadly, he's reflecting the long-standing mentality of Church leadership on this tragic subject. The priests and their superiors who perpetrate and condone these ghastly crimes aren't the problem. The victims who refuse to stay silent, and the (admittedly anti-Christian) media who loves any sort of scandal against any Christian institution (even Protestant ones), they are the "problem".