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Brazilian cleric also tells conference society is ‘pedophile,’ paper reports

RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian archbishop said adolescents are "spontaneously homosexual" and in need of guidance, while society at large is pedophile, according to a Wednesday report.

Archbishop Dadeus Grings — a conservative priest who has made controversial statements in the past — told the O Globo newspaper at a Brazilian bishops conference that society's woes are being reflected in the sex abuse scandal enveloping the Roman Catholic Church.

Porto Alegre's Archbishop Dadeus Grings gives a mass in Porto Alegre, Brazil. A Brazilian newspaper is reporting that Grings says kids are "spontaneously homosexual" and society at large is "pedophile."

"Society today is pedophile, that is the problem. So, people easily fall into it. And the fact it is denounced is a good sign," Grings told O Globo.

The comments come as the church is under fire for a sex abuse scandal touching all corners of the globe — and three weeks after Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the No. 2 official at the Vatican, said at a news conference in Chile that the sex scandals were linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests.

Reports of abuse
There have been several cases of priests allegedly abusing children that have surfaced in Brazil in recent months.

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TAGGED: ABUSE, CHILDREN, MORALITY, RELIGION