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Cardinal says paedophilia 'not a criminal condition'
The Catholic Archbishop of Durban, Wilfrid Fox Napier, has said that people who were abused as children and became paedophiles were not criminally responsible for their actions in the same way as somebody "who chooses to do something like that".
Cardinal Napier, who was among the 115 cardinals in the conclave at the Vatican that elected Pope Francis earlier this week, called paedophilia a "psychological disorder" on told BBC Radio 5 live.
He said: "What do you do with disorders? You have got to try and put them right. If I as a normal being choose to break the law knowing that I am breaking the law, then I think I need to be punished.
"From my experience paedophilia is actually an illness, it is not a criminal condition, it is an illness."
Denying reality is not the way for the Church to move forward.