Paedophilia is an illness, says top Catholic Cardinal

March 17, 2013 19:33

The Vatican was embroiled in fresh controversy today as one of its top cardinals describedpaedophilia as a psychological "illness" rather than a"criminal condition".

Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Catholic Archbishop of Durban, whohelped appoint newly-elected Pope Francis, said in a radiointerview here that people who were abused during childhood and became paedophiles were not criminally responsible fortheir actions in the same way as somebody "who chooses to dosomething like that".

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