07 May 2015, The Tablet

Cardinal error


 
So Cardinal Raymond Burke would have us believe that he is an authority on sexual orientation. “Homosexuality is an ‘ailment’ that was not genetic but depended on a person’s social environment” (The Church in the World, 2 May ). No, cardinal, it’s not as simple as that. An “ailment” is a disorder or disease of the body. In its submission to the Church of England’s “Listening Exercise on Human Sexuality” (October 2007), the Royal
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