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Article: Ban on gay priests called off the mark.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 7, 2002
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Byline: Robin Washington
As the Vatican puts its finishing touches on a policy likely to blame gay priests for the pedophile scandal, victim advocates say the church has failed to acknowledge that a significant number of children abused by clergy were girls.
"Almost half the phone calls I get are from women. The Vatican's suggestion that this is a gay priest issue is utterly off the mark," said Anne Hagen Webb, a psychologist and New England co-director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
On Tuesday, the Vatican Press Office issued a statement on the new policy, prepared in response to the sex abuse scandal, after news media in ...