A celebrated Marxist sociologist, Catholic priest and “peritus” or expert adviser at the Church’s Second Vatican Council, has admitted that he had “inappropriately touched” his then-eight year-old male cousin in 1970, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Belgian François Houtart, 85, is a priest in good standing of the archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels lives now in Ecuador. He told an interviewer at the Belgian paper Le Soir late last month, “While walking through the bedroom of one of the boys in the family, I effectively touched his private parts twice. This woke him up and frightened him. It was obviously an inconsiderate and irresponsible act.”
Houtart told Le Soir that he was “personally perturbed” by the incident, “since I was conscious of the contradiction it represented with my Christian faith and my function as a priest.”
The boy’s sister, who has not been named in the media, made a complaint to the archdiocese’s sexual abuse panel, calling the incident “rape.”
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