Now, THAT'S scary...And so sad. Sad that men who have such evil habits and tendencies have all but taken over the one profession I can think of that people should be able to trust implicitly. Sad that the men with true vocations have been turned away at the doors of almost every seminary in the country if they refused to participate in this evil. Sad, that all through these 40, 50, 60, or even 80 years, as mentionend in the article, men with no respect for their holy vows have been in positions of trust all througout the church in America. If there was ever any doubt in my mind that there was an organized effort to undermine the authority of Rome in the American church, it has been wiped away.
One of the very saddest days in my entire life was the one, not too long ago, when I had to sit my two sons down and tell them about this scandal. (Which I had to do, given the jokes starting to spread all over school, and given that my younger son's Catholic school had been involved in a horrible way in it.) My oldest son's first question was: Why would any man do such things? His second question: How could a priest do such things?