Madison Bishop Robert Morlino has criticises the idea [advocated by Pope Francis] that "conscience" can dispense from following Church teaching.
Talking to EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo (August 23), he said, “Too often people have excused themselves from sinful behaviours by saying, ‘I’m following my conscience and that’s the highest law.”
For Morlino a contraposition of the objective law and the subjective understanding of it is “the linchpin of so many problems since the [Second] Vatican Council”.
Morlino further accuses “a desire to keep abuses away from homosexuality and move it towards paedophilia”.
He points out that over 80% of the victims of clerical abuse have been postpubescent males.
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Morlino speaks truth to power here. Not just the church, but the press and community in Madison will fight him all the way. What he is identifying is the 800 lb gorilla in this matter - the church looked the other way and staffed the clergy with homosexuals, a significant subset of which were pederasts. Those pederasts abused young boys. Only occasionally was the abuse heterosexual, but this allows the press to use terms like “child abuse” to obscure the true nature of what was going on here.
+Morlino is a good guy with a lovely, warm smile. He takes care of his guys and actually backs them. Tradition is welcome in his diocese. While he started as a Jesuit, he has recovered completely. ;)
