Protestants and Jews Have More Pedophiles, Javno, October 1, 2009

Protestants and Jews Have More Pedophiles?

Javno
October 1, 2009

http://www.javno.com/en-world/protestants-and-jews-have-more-pedophiles_276891

The Catholic Church claims that priests have a tendency towards ephobilia, a sexual attraction to adolescents aged 11 to 17.

Silvano Maria Tomasi, Pope’s representative at the Office of the UN and specialized agencies in Geneva, responded to pedophilia accusations.

He claims that the Catholic Church has taken this issue very seriously, but that a main problem lies in other Christian and Jewish denominations. He also adds that ephobia is a much larger problem than pedophilia.

English secularist Keith Porteous Wood, has sent some very harsh criticism to the Catholic Church and he requested that the Vatican opens its archives to the public and acknowledges all the hushed cases of sexual abuse.

He also asks that those who are responsible for the current situation come forth and receive their punishment. In addition to this, he expects an apology from the Church asking that they admit their involvement with numerous abuse affairs.

'The worst is in the Jewish communities and protestant churches'

Tomasi was not reserved with criticism either and citing data published by the daily Christian Science Monitor, which was founded a hundred years ago by the Christian Science Church, said that the Catholic Church cleaned its house, Jutarnji List writes.

According to their figures the majority of the US child abuse cases happens in the Protestant churches and Jewish communities, says Tomasi.

Pedophilia, unlike ephobila does not have anything to do with sexual orientation

To soften and justify Catholic clergy, Tomasi specifies that 80 to 90 percent of abuse of minors are a result of ephobilia, not pedophilia. He defines ephobilia as a sexual preference for adolescents from the age of 11 to 17.

Tomasi was partly right if the tendency towards children before puberty is called pedophilia, preference towards young or pubescent adolescents hebophilia, and sexual preference for children in their middle and late adolescent stage, ephobilia.

Such a division may be psychologically important because pedophilia is violence which has no connection with homosexual or heterosexual orientation, while ephobilia can be associated with one of those categories.

However, in European countries hebophilia and ephobilia are all part of pedophilia, because their upper limit for pedophilia is set between the age of 12 and 15. So, what the Vatican calls ephobilia, is really called pedophilia in all of other European countries.

Bishop smuggled child pornography across the border

However, the problem of pedophilia or ephobilia does not end here, and instead, it continues to supply media with continuous scandal reports. The latest one was the case of a 69-year-old bishop from Canada whose laptop was discovered to contain large amounts of child pornography.

The bishop, who was accused for distribution and sale of child pornography, was discovered after his computer was randomly examined at the Ottawa airport.

Bishop Raymond Lahey was returning from the United States when the Canadian border police found the disputed photographs on his computer. He immediately resigned from the Catholic Church position.

He told his congregations that he was leaving for the spiritual reformation

In his letter, in which he announced that he would no longer serve as a bishop, he explained to his congregation that he was leaving because of ‘spiritual renewal’, AFP writes.

Lahey became known to the public when he mediated a program that paid 13 million Canadian dollars to a large number of victims who claimed that they were sexually abused by priests since the 1950’s.

He addressed the families of the victims in August when he told them that he hopes ‘that they would never have to deal with this detestable behavior ever again’.