Please read my post #11.
since I know people who were horribly abused by their ever beloved parish priest I find your post offensive on oh so many levels. If you think that the cases in the American version of the catholic church are all just out for money you are sorely mistaken. Too often when these young men came forward the statute of limitations had passed and hence no prosecution occurred. When priests are hidden away and ‘treated’ for pedophilia and then released onto a new congregation with no supervision and no warning to parishioners, I say there is something endemically wrong.