[Dr. Thorne]

This wasn't forty years ago. This molestation stopped just seven years ago. These "priests" actually rented a house for their perversion parties. But, nobody knew.

Yeah. Right.

[NEMDF]

It definitely sounds more like an organized pedophile ring than the “typical” case of the priest groping the altar boy in the back hallway. There have to be more victims, IMHO.

[Alex Murphy]

Ten Spanish priests were charged with child sexual abuse on Tuesday, in a case brought after Pope Francis telephoned the victim to offer the Church's apology, court documents showed. The victim, now 24, wrote to the pope to say he had been molested when he was an altar boy. The pope called the man in August to apologize, Spanish news site Religion Digital reported in November, a report later confirmed by the pope himself.

Does the apology constitute a guilty plea?

[Rashputin]

Meanwhile, non-Catholic church pastors, assistant pastors, videographers, music directors, and church school teachers, arrested for child molestation in SC, GA, TX, FL, and NY, during the past few weeks don't make the pages of FR.

Quite selective outrage.

Sick bastards in non-Catholic churches must be so common they're not even newsworthy to the people who put together the national news and news wire content. Apparently they're also not unusual enough to attract the attention of the "concerned" and "outraged" crowd who post a constant stream of anti-Catholic garbage on FR.

If I didn't know better I'd think that the "concerned" folks on FR don't give a hoot about children being molested, they only give a hoot about having mud to sling at the very small number of sick bastards that manage to make it into the Catholic clergy.

[servantboy777]

>>The Vatican said last year it had defrocked about 850 priests between 2004 and 2013 who had been accused of sexually abusing minors.<<

850? That really makes my heart ache.