Tu Quoque by the Vatigan

The Guardian recently reported as follows on a statement by the Vatigan:

"The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was "busy cleaning its own house" and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger.

In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males."

I expect to hear the Tu Quoque ("you too") fallacy from school children, not from an esteemed organization like the Catholic church. How much more damage and misery will it allow a minority of priests to cause before it acts decisively? As the father of an adolescent son, I find the excuse that priests were not paedophiles because their victims were adolescents, offensive.