Paedophiles have a mental health condition...

His words were "…a psychological condition, a disorder".

He didnt say that paedophilia is a mental condition, he said that in SOME CASES it was a mental disease. I see no problem with that comment. Children need to be protected from paedophiles whether the attacker is knowingly commiting a crime or mental ill.

We accept mental illness as an acceptable defence to murder, but we do not then let the murderers go free we commit them to mental hospitals, that some will never leave because they will never be safe living freely. The same surely applies to paedophiles.

Some paedophiles were abused as children. Some people who were abused as children did not become paedophiles as adults. This is a simple minded and inaccurate comment by someone who truly does not know what he is talking about. Indeed, it does look like a get-out-of-jail free card.

The bishop is wrong. I have no idea how many paedophiles were abused as children or what the triggers for their actions were - I expect Whenim will be able to bring her knowledge and experience to give some facts and reasons - but, the bishop is not he church. He is the bishop of Durban. And he is wrong.