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I agree with GOP_Party_Animal. What the "Jay Report" disclosed, analyzed, and concluded is dreadfully disturbing from the point of view of sexual sickness, sin, and crime --- dreadful reading, although it's necessary to get it all out into the open. But I don't think anybody "flaunts" this report as if it "cleansed" anything.

Look, as far as Catholic teaching is concerned, it is gravely wrong (a serious sin) for anybody --- man or woman, adult or minor, "gay" or "straight," clergy or laity, anybody --- to have sexual relations in any way with anybody, except for natural fertile union as God intended it, with their God-blessed lawfully married spouse.

Any violation of the Moral Law is deeply corrupting, and criminally indictable stuff is just the tip of the iceberg.

The report was commissioned ... meaning 'bought and paid' for by the US Catholic Bishops... (they knew what was going on, they had to, given the means and methods they shipped the pervert priests around here and there.) to 'clear' Catholic priests of pre-pubescence abuse.... Period.

Time and again I have read right here on FR, Catholics post, the 'Church' does not have a priest pedophile problem ... just a 'homosexual' problem. Some have even cited the 'Jay doctrine' as if it were factual and evidence of such claims.

You posted this thread, and right off the bat, you plant the notion, your own personal bias as to what has taken place.

I don't know what to say about this. The Boy Scouts have certain things in common with the Catholic Church which makes them interesting to lawyers: Extensive assets which can fund big payouts Extensive records going back many decades, and The "gotcha" factor: "People used to think you were so decent, so "morally straight". Hypocrites!." You wonder ... I wonder ...how much is a search for justice for men who say they were molested 40-50 years ago, and how much is a desire to access $$$ and discredit/destroy traditional institutions.

Given that 'Catholic Charities has collected 'billions' from US taxpayers, in human trafficking, it seems to me, your concern about lawyers and $$$$$ is well misplaced. Does not matter how long ago the abuse was sanctioned. I am not a Catholic but I sure am charged for their so called 'charity work'.

Exactly to whom does a 'pre-pubescence' member of the Catholic Church, report abuse? They have no one... which is what is hidden like the fig leaves in the garden, hidden away and totally whitewashed.