FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis (R) greets former Pope Benedict during a consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican February 22, 2014. REUTERS/Alessia Giuliani
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict has blamed the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal on the effects of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, homosexual cliques in seminaries and what he called a general collapse in morality.
Critics accused Benedict, who before becoming pope in 2005 was for 23 years in charge of the Vatican doctrinal office that has been widely criticised for its handling of abuse cases, of trying to shift blame away from the Church.
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