Rest easy: Priests have NO rights anymore.
All Christian Priests/pastors etc must be held to a higher standard. The innocent ones? Dunno about that.
I wasn’t “distinguishing” between children and teenagers as though molesting one was bad and molesting the other not so bad. I was alluding to the fact that the number of priests who have molested children is, in fact, minuscule. Something like half-a-dozen. OTOH, the vast majority of the “pedophile” priests have NOT been pedophiles but homosexual men who molested teenagers. The phrase “pedophile priest” has been promoted partly because of the alliteration and largely because it has diverted attention from the reality that homosexual men were the principal culprits and teenage boys the principal victims.
Why would anyone want to distort the public perception of the Church’s “problem” in this way? Because in non-church situations, increasing homosexual men’s access to teenage boys is STILL part of the Agenda.