By his thinking, no one is guilty of anything. We are all shaped by our environment and genetics, but unless one is truly mentally ill, we also have a free will.
But I disagree...because all these events are/were pre-meditated.
All those priests should be de-frocked and sent to prison. NO...the church turned it into a "payoff".
We haven't heard his thoughts on drilling for oil, or on making a lot of money.
What you said is exactly right, FR_addict. Everybody has an inborn inclination to do one sort of evil or another; that's called "concupiscence," as this Cardinal Napier should know, and it is an innate feature of our fallen human nature.
We are all born ith these characer flaws, and it is our responsibility --- with the grace of God --- to overcome them.
If one accepted Cardinal Napier's account of human action, one would have to say nobody is responsible for anything, because we are neither responsible for our genetic inheritance nor our early childhood development and environment.
It was wrong for Napier to say this. It was in violaion of what the Catholic Church teaches about human freedom and responsibility. I shows a failure to protect children from the predations of others.
And it was just plain stupid.