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
07 May 2015, The Tablet
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