Robert Edwards

The Church Cannot Be Silent About The "Orientation" Toward Homosexuality

During the Vatican Summit on the Church’s clergy sexual abuse crisis Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who was one of the Vatican’s main spokesmen at the Summit, was asked by the media if the Summit would deal with homosexuality as a possible problem behind the sexual abuse crisis. The archbishop responded that homosexuality and heterosexuality are “human conditions,” adding, “they are not something that predisposes to sin.” The Archbishop appears to be saying that sexual orientation is neutral or that homosexual orientation is equal to heterosexual orientation in that neither pushes or leads one into sin. ☩ Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap.