Grow up, jackass! Any time somebody says something you don't like, you brand them a democrat. What an A$$.
If the Catholic church would actually do something to remove pedophiles and homosexuals from the priesthood, you might have something to complain about. However, they wont get rid of them until they have multiple molestation complaints. They Catholic church is complicit in the pedophilic behavior of these perverts. Until they do something about it, you're wrong and I'm right.
Let's see... just to throw a number out there, maybe 15% of priests have homosexual inclinations with only maybe 4% having an active gay lifestyle. However, you see it fit to make a broad statement that queer studies would be good preparation for the priesthood.
I would say that 90% of the people that attack the Catholic Church are liberals. It makes sense: they hate the institution's conservative stance and look for any way to discredit it.
So you say, based on 4%, that priests are gay. I say, based on 90% that you're a liberal scumbag. Who's more likely to be right?
What do you think has been going on? We're practically to the point now where anyone -- priest or not, male or female, married or not -- has to have a criminal background check to have anything to do with kids in a Catholic setting, and we are at the point where certain lawyers are openly trolling for men who will accuse priests of fondling them. (Whether the accusation is true or not is beside the point. The money is there. My diocese recently settled for an unknown amount with victims who were abused by a man after he had been expelled from the priesthood!! If you can figure out where the justice is in that, please let me know. It was evidently cheaper to settle than to keep paying lawyers to fight it.)
Meanwhile, there's this for you to chew on. Notice the poster's comments on the number of public school sexual molestation cases versus cases involving the Catholic clergy.
Are you a Catholic? If so, what are you doing to clean up your Church?
You are not well informed. The Church has started to do something about the problem, starting with the Pope's edicts blocking gays from entering the seminaries. The problem was that the US Catholic Church thought that gays were capable of being as celibate as straights, so that "orientation" didn't matter. Okay, now we know for certain that orientation does in fact matter. And have done something about it.