What is your opinion of the current state of the Catholic Church? Have the priests and bishops been brought to an understanding of their terrible wrong-doing in hiding these crimes and protecting the guilty over the years, or else have they been pensioned off? Is the Catholic Church truly committed to change?
The CC won't change until they honestly deal with the problem of gay priests.
This will be hard as so many of the bishops are in the gay mafia themselves.
The barbarians are at the gate of the Episcopal Church also, but they have swarmed inside the holy walls of the CC for probably 30 or 40 years.
I have posted on a couple other threads that I think the Catholic Church is slower than the U. S. government when it comes to making decisions.
These things didn't happen overnight and they will not be dealt with overnight. It will take time. The Catholic Church will come out stronger in the end, despite the cleansing. Always seems to work that way.
In fact, right now, young people in our youth group and all over are calling for a return to basics and revernce at Mass, in prayer, in service. Really is quite a phenomenon.
Hiding and protecting the worng-doers was the wrong thing for the Catholic Church to do. They are STILL learning that lesson apparently.
This series of stories has been more about ordered priests, Salesians in the first story, could have been about Franciscans or Benedictines or "pick an order"!
I think the staff at the DMN just picked a couple of abusers out of a can or list and followed and followed and follwed until the got the story.
However, I do believe that the DMN is a left-leaning rag (2err-fish-wrapper) and needs to be assessed in that light.