[PJ] Cardinal Gerhard Muller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) from 2012-2017, declared in a recent interview that the church needs to address the homosexual underpinnings of the clerical abuse crisis, saying that the "homosexual conduct of clergymen can in no case be tolerated."Speaking candidly with Dr. Maike Hickson of LifeSiteNews, the German prelate said leaders in the Catholic Church still underestimate what he called a "homosexual network" wreaking havoc in the church.
Muller expressed disgust for disgraced Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who resigned in July after an investigation found credible evidence that he was a "serial predator" of adults and minors when he was a priest in New York.
"That McCarrick, together with his clan and a homosexual network, was able to wreak havoc in a mafia-like manner in the Church is connected with the underestimation of the moral depravity of homosexual acts among adults," Muller told LifeSite.
The conservative cardinal went on to criticize the Vatican for failing to look into all the rumors concerning McCarrick's misbehavior for decades, saying that a public apology is in order.
Said Muller: "There should very clearly come out a public explanation about these events and the personal connections, as well as the question as to how much the involved Church authorities knew at each step; such an explanation could very well include an admission of a wrong assessment of persons and situations."