Lost me there.
The scandal was both the priests who abused those children committed to their care and the hierarchy that shuffled them around and enabled them to abuse more children in new places.
I agree, whole heartedly. The Preists were/are men. And all men are sinners. I would accept that explanation if the Catholic Church acted and turn these perverts over to the authorities.
Instead, the princes of the Vatican took unbelievable steps to protect their own, instead of acting to protect children. I will never forgive the Bishops and Cardinals who have ruined the church.
>>Lost me there
I did not deny that abuses took place. The important question is whether the Catholic priests were abusing children at a higher rate than people with similar positions of responsibility, such as public school teachers. The Catholic League revealed that the priests abused children at a much lower rate than public school teachers.
I am not trying to minimize child abuse. But we must not be statistically illiterate. In a Church of 1.1 billion people, with hundreds of thousands of priests, to expect a 100 percent record of perfection is to be unrealistic, when we do not hold teachers, doctors, cops, firemen, and people in other respected professions to a similar standard.
Yup. People who wish to destroy the Church are certainly using the sex scandals as a big stick to wield against it.
But they didn’t cause the Priests to engage in that abuse. And it didn’t force the hierarchy to keep covering it up.
I have read that homosexual activists pushed very hard for the Church to accept homosexuals into the priesthood.
Three influences at work in the clerical abuse scandal deserve mention: directives from the Vatican for secrecy in order to avoid or limit public scandal and disrepute; advice from a generation of Kinsey-besotted psychologists to the effect that clerical sexual relations with children would usually not do lasting damage and that pedophilia was curable; and the sinister influence of entrenched networks of homosexual clergy who gained effective control of large swaths of the Catholic Church in America.