Vatican Sets Record Straight on Sexual Abuse. The following facts were presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Sept. 22, 2009 by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva. Mr. President, Let me clarify the issue raised by the International Humanist and Ethical Union in its intervention. While many speak of child abuse, i.e. pedophilia, it would be more correct to speak of ephebophilia, being a homosexual attraction to adolescent males.
Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80% to 90% belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the age of 11 and 17 years old. From available research we now know that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5% and 5% of the Catholic clergy has been involved in sexual abuse cases. About 85% of the offenders of child sexual abuse are family members, babysitters, neighbors, family friends or relatives. According to a major 2004 study commissioned by the U.S. Endnotes: Can women be Ordained priests? What does the Church say? - Catholic News Service.
This has been a cause for several questions, however, no matter who and when it’s asked, the Church always answered: “No”. Her reasons are simple: The NT and the Church Fathers do not support the practice. It is inconsistent with the Faith. Christ himself choose only men, and the Church has deemed it wise to continue in his footsteps. Women play a very pivotal role in the Church nonetheless, the Fathers’ writings reveal that women have been active in different orders in the Church throughout her history. St John Paul II, in “OrdinatioSacerdotalis” says: "Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church’s judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force.
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