The Vatican’s most recent statement concerning the link between pedophilia and homosexuality, which was designed to quell a fire caused by a previous statement, actually caused a new hullabaloo.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi tried to douse flames of controversy by releasing a statement intended to lend the Vatican distance from the uproar.
Lombardi said that Church leaders were not trying to make “general affirmations of a specific psychological nature” and offered Church statistics cited by the Vatican’s internal prosecutor, Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna.