This week, a Melbourne Catholic priest compared priests who sexually
abuse children to women who have extra-marital affairs. Apparently
trying to make a point about mercy in the face of public outrage, Father Bill Edebohls,
head of schools in his parish in East Malvern, referenced the tale of
the adulterous woman spared from stoning by Jesus with the words, "He
who is without sin. Let him cast the first stone at her."
"For our generation, where adultery is not regarded as a crime – and many have lost the moral sense of the destructive harm adultery does to family and community... we probably don't get the power of the gospel story," he wrote.
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/news-features/why-did-a-priest-equate-the-sin-of-a-womans-adultery-with-paedophilia-20160420-goav0b.html
"For our generation, where adultery is not regarded as a crime – and many have lost the moral sense of the destructive harm adultery does to family and community... we probably don't get the power of the gospel story," he wrote.
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/news-features/why-did-a-priest-equate-the-sin-of-a-womans-adultery-with-paedophilia-20160420-goav0b.html