[ikanakattara]

This Boston situation (and all the other pedophile cases from all the other dioceses in the US) have *nothing* to do with "doctrine." Most of us here are on the same page regarding sex with children. We agree it's wrong. But the Catholic Church in this country is NOT helped by people sticking their heads in the sand and yelling "Catholic bashing!" every time these stories break.

As someone linked above, there are possibly more than 50 priests who have potentially been involved in *child* sex abuse in the Boston archdiocese *alone.* This is a shocking number, especially as male-homosexual pedophilia is considered to be far rarer than the heterosexual kind (men abusing girls.)

[JMJ333]

Sorry, but I know an agenda when I see one. There are certain people here at FR, who have one thing on their minds every time they post. I've already explained on this thread that I support the effort to rid the Church of any criminal we have lurking within our community. I am not, though, going to sit by and let these same posters continually trash Catholics and let their agenda go without trying to expose them for the haters that they are. If you need me to link you to some examples I will.

[EODGUY]

"As someone linked above, there are possibly more than 50 priests who have potentially been involved in *child* sex abuse in the Boston archdiocese *alone.* This is a shocking number, especially as male-homosexual pedophilia is considered to be far rarer than the heterosexual kind (men abusing girls.) "

Would you deem it logical to draw conclusions based on the "questionable specificity" of your post?

I wouldn't.

[teresat]

But what about all the teachers who molest their students? The number of teachers/educators that are molesters is much higher than clergy. You're very fixated on the problem with priests maybe you should concentrate on the bigger problem of teachers who molest their students.