"Burke hasn`t been open about clergy abuse in the past," Terence McKiernan, president of BishopAccountability.org, an online resource about priestly sex abuse, said in an email.
The Vatican has sent Cardinal Raymond Burke to the Pacific island of Guam to investigate an important case alleging sexual abuse, dispatching a seasoned jurist who has clashed repeatedly with Pope Francis for a sensitive mission halfway around the world.
" But he has also blamed gay clergy for the church`s sexual abuse crisis, saying priests "who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity" were the ones who molested children.
Burke has said every act of abuse by clergy is a "grave evil.
Francis recently sidelined Burke from that position after Burke was involved in the problematic ouster of a senior knight.
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