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Pederast: a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Pedophile: an adult whose primary sexual interest is in children.

It's a distinction without a difference in my view.

Both pederasts and pedophiles like to have sex with children. Both behaviors are illegal. Covering up such behavior is illegal. Not reporting such behavior to authorities is illegal.

Do you have a point with your question or were you just trying to toss some dirt in the air?

You may not like the facts, but they are the facts just the same. For decades the American Catholic Church had many practicing pederasts and pedophiles in its employ. The church hierarchy was aware of it. Several members of that hierarchy actively engaged in covering the behavior up and shuffling the offenders from parish to parish thereby allowing them to attack dozens, possibly hundreds more children.

Now if any other organization in America from General Motors to the Boy Scouts had engaged in this sort of activity its management people would have gone to prison and the offending organization would have been quite rightly sued out of existence.

But because its the Catholic Church people will make lame ass excuses like "not every Bishop knew about it" and "it wasn't in every Parish". Well that's just great isn't it? They somehow managed to make sure that not every Bishop was a willing conspirator and that not every Parish got a visit from some sick bast*** who liked to f*** little boys.

You know what I say? I say thanks for nothing.

I don't hate the Catholic church, so spare me that crap. I do however, as I said before, hate perverts who prey on kids. I most especially hate people who know about perverts actively preying on kids and then don't just not stop them, but actively conceal their crimes.

I would think any decent human being would feel the same way.