Church’s Opposition to Abortion and Gay “Marriage” behind Media “Hate Campaign” – Cardinals
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By Hilary White, LifeSite News
Three high-level Vatican cardinals have denounced the “campaign of hatred” that is being waged against the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI over the clerical sex abuse crisis, saying the motive behind the campaign is the pope’s defence of the unborn and marriage.
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Spanish Cardinal Julian Herra, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, said on Tuesday, “The Pope defends life and the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, in a world in which powerful lobbies would like to impose a completely different” agenda.
Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State, added that Pope Benedict “has done all that he could have” against sex abuse by clergy. Cardinal Lajolo decried a campaign of “hatred against the Catholic church.”
The former Secretary of State and Dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, “By now, it's a cultural contrast. The pope embodies moral truths that aren't accepted, and so, the shortcomings and
errors of priests are used as weapons against the Church.”
Sodano pointed to the Pope’s apologies over the scandals, saying, “But it's not Christ's fault if Judas betrayed. It's not a bishop's fault if one of his priests is stained by grave wrongdoing. And certainly the pontiff is not responsible.
“Behind the unjust attacks on the pope are visions of the family and of life that run contrary to the Gospel,” Sodano said. “Now the accusation of pedophile is being brandished against the church.”
Veteran Vatican expert and papal biographer John Allen wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times of Benedict’s contribution, since his days as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to combating the abuse of minors by homosexual predators in the priesthood.
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