[Campion]

The fact is that when women are demonized, pathology always emerges. It is so ingrained in many Catholic priests to believe that it would be dirty and evil for them to have sex with a woman, that some of them end up rationalizing that it is less sinful to molest a little boy -- or to have sex with a man.

Oh, yeah, right ... "demonizing" women (???) creates pedophiles out of otherwise-normal adult men.

What rot. By the same logic, perhaps we should have shipboard brothels in the Navy -- otherwise, the risk of homosexual rape on those long sea voyages is just too high.

Thanks, Jamie, for ignoring all of the evidence from psychology, which indicates that sexual behavior patterns are chosen by late adolescence (after which no amount of "demonizing" of women will make a pedophile out of a normal man), and all of the evidence from sociology, which indicates that married Protestant clergy commit child sexual abuse at the same rates as celibate Catholic clergy.

[Askel5]

that married Protestant clergy commit child sexual abuse at the same rates as celibate Catholic clergy

Judging from Rivero's research posted time and again here, Catholics priests actually appear to fall behind in this respect on the average.

I've always wanted to follow-up with a more objective source ... although it's true, strangely enough, that Rivero was a Catholic-basher extraordinnaire.