AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By MARTHA AZZI FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
A Catholic priest has caused outrage after he compared paedophile priests to adulterous women in a primary school’s newsletter.
Father Bill Edebohl’s a parish priest for St Mary’s Primary School in Malvern East, Melbourne, had his homily printed ‘word for word’ in the school’s March newsletter for parents.
The controversial priest also said he was concerned the Royal Commission into child sex abuse will not allow victims to heal, reported The Age.
The priest began his homily recounting a gospel passage of Jesus showing mercy towards an adulterer by halting a mob ready to cast stones after telling them ‘he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her’.
‘Remember this [adultery] was a sin, a crime that carried the death penalty – by stoning,’ Father Edebohl said.
‘Maybe to get the real drama and effect of the story we ought to replace the adulterous woman with a paedophile priest.
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