Let’s see…is Papa Ratzi and Co.’s strategy to say flaming BS like this over and over to convince themselves this lie is true? No it’s not because their child-raping priests are gay, it’s because they are deviant and sick men who haven’t dealt in any kind of healthy way with themselves as sexual beings. And many of the molestation cases involved young girls.And the church knew that praying away the deviance didn’t work and continued to ship these criminals around. Pay special attention to Tomasi’s “look over there at other scandals” BS.

The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church in the US and abroad was a matter of homosexuals preying on adolescent boys, not one of pedophilia, said the Vatican’s representative at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. It is “more correct,” said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, to speak of ephebophilia, a homosexual attraction to adolescent males, than pedophilia, in relation to the scandals.

“Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90 per cent belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17,” said Tomasi. His statement is backed up by a report commissioned by the US bishops that found that in the overwhelming majority of cases the clergy involved were homosexuals, with 81 percent of victims being adolescent males.

Tomasi also responded to criticisms, saying that while the Catholic Church has been “busy cleaning its own house, it would be good if other institutions and authorities, where the major part of abuses are reported, could do the same and inform the media about it.” According to information from various sources, the problem of sexual abuse of minors in religious organizations is widespread among Protestant churches and Jewish communities.

And this whinefest is falling on deaf ears, since the UN Human Rights Council published a damning statement by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) that makes no bones about it —  the Vatican was responsible for the raping, molestation, child porn and other ghastly offenses by priests — and the coverup. It charges that the Catholic Church has failed to honor obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

The Holy See has been heavily implicated for decades in covering up cases of child abuse carried our by its clergy and religious orders, in obstructing justice, and in failing to deal appropriately with abusers,” said Roy Brown, IHEU Main Representative at the UN Geneva.

“Yet for too long it has been given a free ride by the international community because of its presumed moral leadership. Our report is the first to bring the issue to the attention of the Council. We shall be referring to our report in the plenary of the Human Rights Council next week.”

Yep, presumed moral leadership. Instead it was an amoral criminal enterprise that damaged how many families of faith who trusted them?