A U.S. bishop has claimed that a “homosexual subculture” exists within the “hierarchy of the Catholic Church,” which is leading to the mass child sex abuse scandals.
U.S. Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin, wrote in a pastoral letter on Saturday that there is “justified anger” being directed at Catholic leadership over the Pennsylvania grand jury report, released last week, which revealed how 301 priests who abused over 1,000 children over decades were protected by the institution.
Morlino said that the abuse detailed in the 1,300-page report is “sickening,” but insisted that it is not just pedophilia that is the problem. “[W]e are talking about deviant sexual — almost exclusively homosexual — acts by clerics.”
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