Pope Francis says 2% of Catholic clergy are pedophiles


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Vatican City, 13 July 2014: Pope Francis promised "solutions" to the issue of priestly celibacy in an interview on Sunday that raised the possibility the Catholic Church could eventually lift a ban on married priests, but was quickly refuted by the Vatican.

 

Interviewed by Italy’s La Repubblica daily, Francis also condemned child sex abuse as a "leprosy" in the Church and cited his associates as saying that "the level of paedophilia in the Church is at two per cent".

 

"That two per cent includes priests and even bishops and cardinals," the pope was quoted as saying.

 

Asked whether priests might one day be allowed to marry, Francis pointed out that celibacy was instituted "900 years after Our Lord’s death" and that clerics can marry in some Eastern Churches under Vatican tutelage.

 

 

"There definitely is a problem but it is not a major one. This needs time but there are solutions and I will find them," Francis said, without giving further details.

 

But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the quotations in the newspaper on the existence of paedophile cardinals and the possible reform of priestly celibacy did not correspond to what the pope actually said.

 

"This is not at all an interview in the normal sense of the word," he said, accusing the newspaper of "manipulating ingenuous readers".

 

The interview was the third in a series with the 90-year-old founder of La Repubblica daily, Eugenio Scalfari, a famous journalist and known atheist.

 

 

 

 

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