Catholic Cardinal: ‘Homosexual culture’ is to blame for child rape.

Raymond Burke called homosexuality a "tendency that is disordered" (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty)

A Catholic Cardinal has blamed sexual abuse scandals on a “homosexual culture” within the Church.

US Cardinal Raymond Burke, who serves as Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome, added that homosexuality was a “tendency that is disordered” and needed to be “purified at the root.”