Religion and Politics

The Most Talked About Non-Topic at the Vatican? Homosexuality

The New York Times’s Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo write that conflicting views about homosexuality in the church distracted discussions at the Vatican conference on the sexual abuse of children, despite the lack of connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. They write, “Each day at the meeting, reporters from conservative Catholic news outlets peppered the meeting’s organizers with questions about why they are dodging the topic of homosexuality. Their short answer: because it is irrelevant.” They add, “Cardinal Raymond Burke of the United States and Cardinal Walter Brandmüller of Germany published an open letter to the presidents of bishops’ conferences representing various countries at the meeting, urging them to end their ‘conspiracy of silence’ about the ‘plague of the homosexual agenda.’”

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