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7. HATER! You caused those pedophile priests, you know...
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 05:09 PM
Jan 2015

Well, damned if this ain't some Sophisticated Theology, from Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke.

Of course it's ANCIENT news, posted 2 whole days ago...

American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke blames paedophile priests on 'radical feminists'

by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith - Monday 12 January 2015

An American Cardinal has claimed that “radical feminism” is to blame for a host of issues within the Catholic Church and blamed feminists for creating paedophiles, or sexually confused “disordered men” who entered the priesthood and sexually abused children.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, who was last year demoted by Pope Francis from the head of the Vatican’s highest court to a role with little responsibility, has claimed that the “radical feminism which has assaulted the Church and society since the 1960s has left men very marginalised”...

He argues that the case for women’s rights has led to men growing up without proper identities, which has detrimental effect in later life. He calls these men “poorly formed,” and blames this for their addictions “to pornography, sexual promiscuity, alcohol, drugs, and a whole gamut of addictions”.

The confusion that radical feminism caused for men in terms of their sexual identity also led to paedophiles becoming priests.

The Cardinal claims that “there was a period of time when men who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity had entered the priesthood – sadly some of these disordered men sexually abused minors,” which he called “a terrible tragedy for which the Church mourns”.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-cardinal-raymond-leo-burke-blames-paedophile-priests-on-radical-feminists-9973240.html

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