I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true,” he told a news conference. “That is the problem.

While I am trained as a practitioner/scientist, I do not clam to have access to all academic research, but a 0.50 min. search on Google produces the following article

“Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation” http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/HTML/facts_molestation.html

that states “The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so.”

And as far as Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone statement that psychologist and psychiatrist have demonstrated no relation between celibacy and pedophiles; the article also stats the following “The distinction between a victim’s gender and a perpetrator’s sexual orientation is important because many child molesters don’t really have an adult sexual orientation. They have never developed the capacity for mature sexual relationships with other adults, either men or women.” This would seem to me the exact situation that celibacy creates when a young man enters the priesthood.

But again I am not as learned as the Vatican secretary of state.

Please take time and read the research article in full, presenting the facts to others is our greatest response to these lies.