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..."But many of these have proven themselves inwardly to be ravening wolves. You have to be an imbecile not to be able to adjudge that..."

For the record, according to the Washington Post, a decidedly liberal paper, 99.3% of priests have never been accused of molestation. That means only 0.7%, less than 1%, have been. Furthermore, in reviewing data over the last 40 years, the Post noted that only 1.5% of priests have been found guilty of such crimes. That means 98.5% of priests are truly good men, trying to serve God as best they can.

Please take the time to acquaint yourself with the facts before posting your "imbecilic" thoughts.

But a large percentage of the Catholic HIERARCHY have been covering up, even (some would say) aiding and abetting the behavior.

Can you not understand, this is the REAL scandal? And some of these people who were covered for were pretty outrageous, such as Paul Shanley and Michael Geough.

Also, what is the casual observer to make of all this equivocating on the public statements and published works of some of these people. For example:

In February 1979, the same month as the NAMBLA meeting, Cardinal Medeiros sent a letter to the Vatican's Cardinal Franjo Seper, telling the cardinal that he had met with Shanley and told the priest he was "confusing people" with his teachings about homosexuality. Shanley had produced tapes for distribution called "Changing Norms of Sexuality."
"I believe that Father Shanley is a troubled priest," Medeiros later told the Vatican.
Yet Shanley was allowed to continue in the priesthood for years. When he moved to California to join the San Bernardino Diocese in 1990, he served for three years without restriction on his contact with children.
-- Story on FoxNews.Com (LINK HERE)

I mean, these are things that the average person just does NOT understand. Why is it unclear in the minds of these leaders that public statements and published writings of people like Shanley, that are not only in violation of Roman Catholic teachings but of standards of morality everywhere, are more than just "troubling"?

Why have these people been dealt with in such a "kid gloves" fashion? I suspect that any "bigotry" against the Church arises from what appears to be the outrageous coverup.