Pope's child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims

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Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered "normal" by society. "In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children," the Pope said.

source: Article 'Pope's child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims'; www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popersquos-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-15035449.html; Belfast Telegraph; 21 December 2010