Pope Blames Celibacy for Child Molesting in the Catholic Church

After years of blaming everything else (most recently secular pornography), Pope Benedict finally blames the chosen lifestyle of Catholic priests for sexual abuse toward children. "It's become clear now that absolute power over little boys paired with forced abstinence and no real consequences of their actions is a lethal combination," Pope Benedict said. The church plans to "phase out" celibacy among priests altogether and to finally turn in sex offenders to the police, rather than taking matters into their own hands.

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