Cardinal Favored to Become First Black Pope Blames Gay Priests for the Church’s Sexual Abuse Scandals

In an interview last week with CNN, Ghanaian Cardnial Peter Turkson, considered by many to be the favorite to succeed Pope Benedict XVI (which would make him the first black Pope), created an uproar with his response to Christiane Amanpour’s question about the possibility of the Catholic Church’s sex scandal spreading to Africa. For Turkson, the issue isn’t Church-wide cover ups of the scandal or any other systematic problem; instead, Turkson thinks the abuse occurred because there were too many gay priests in Europe and North America. More »