"Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shown that there is no link between celibacy and pedophilia but many others have shown, I have recently been told, that there is a relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia," - Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State who is also dubbed the Deputy Pope.

For the record, the Pope himself has distinguished between child-rape and homosexual orientation.

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