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   BRUSSELS, Belgium -- A former bishop's televised admission that he   
   sexually abused two of his nephews caused an uproar in Belgium on   
   Friday, with the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor   
   expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses.   
      
   In an interview that aired Thursday Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop   
   of Bruges, spoke of his sexual abuse as "a little game," that involved   
   fondling, but no "rough sex."   
      
   "I was never naked" and the abuse was never about "real sexuality,"   
   said Vangheluwe, 74.   
      
   He resigned as bishop in 2010 after admitting he had abused one of his   
   nephews for 13 years ­ until the boy was 18. In the TV interview aired   
   Thursday, he revealed that he had abused a second nephew "a few times,   
   a couple of times, not for years."   
      
   Vangheluwe apologized for the pain he had caused, but denied being a   
   pedophile.   
      
   "I never felt the least attraction to a child," he said.   
      
   "And I still don't. From me toward him (the nephew) there was a bit of   
   intimacy that occurred each time we saw one another. And of which we   
   later said, 'That's not right.'"   
      
   The abuse occurred at sleep-over family gatherings, Vangheluwe said.   
      
   The reaction from the Belgian church ­ which has been devastated by   
   hundreds of abuse cases and allegations ­ was sharp disapproval.   
      
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