The Dutch News website reports today (May 24, 2011) that the head of the Catholic Salesian order in the Netherlands has been fired -- and it will be up to the pope to decide if he can remain a priest -- because of comments he made about pedophilia.
Herman Spronck said two days ago that sexual relationships between adults and children were not always damaging.
Thousands of past cases of alleged sexual abuse by Dutch priests are currently under investigation.
The Salesian order was set up at the end of the 19th century to carry out "works of charity to help the young, especially the poor, and to educate boys for the priesthood."
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