NEW YORK (NY)
America Magazine
February 24, 2019
By Michael J. O’Loughlin
In the months leading up to the Vatican’s four-day summit on the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, some U.S. prelates, activists and even some journalists tried to link homosexuality with the abuse crisis, attempts to urge church officials to take a hard line against gay priests.
But the topic was barely broached during the summit, and when it was, leading prelates dismissed any connection.
“To generalize, to look at a whole category of people is never legitimate. We have individual cases. We don’t have categories of people,” said Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who has become one of the Vatican’s point man in the fight against sex abuse.
Responding to a reporter’s question during a press briefing on Feb. 21 about why the Vatican was not discussing homosexuality, he said that homosexuality and heterosexuality are “human conditions,” adding, “they are not something that predisposes to sin.”
“To generalize, to look at a whole category of people is never legitimate. We have individual cases. We don’t have categories of people.”
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“I would never dare to indicate a category as a category that has a tendency to sin,” Archbishop Scicluna said.
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