President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said Catholic priests should be allowed to marry, even with the same sex, as a way to stop sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy. In a profanity-laden statement, the President said the Vatican summit on clerical sexual abuse just proved that there was truth to his attacks against priests and bishops. “For me, it would be better to allow priests to marry,” the President said. But allowing priests to marry is not the solution to the problem of sexual misconduct in the Church, according to the public affairs committee the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). “It is about having sexual deviant personality that cannot be cured simply by allowing the perpetrators to marry,” Secillano said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 25, 2019 21:33 UTC