In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males.
It seems to me that forbidding homosexuals from becoming priests would pretty much solve the problem, no?
Maybe. As others will tell you, the Catholic Church's problems with paedophile and ephebophile clergy is statistically behind them. The days of having 4% abusers is over, or so we're told.
But the scandal was never really about the 4% abusers in their ranks. The real scandal was that 66% of bishops covered for the 4%, negatively affecting 95% of the dioceses in the United States - actions which cost the Catholic Church over three billion dollars paid in settlements and awards to the victims.