[Conservative til I die]

Wow, nice to blanket the entire Catholic clergy (and I'm guessing, the entire Catholic laity by extension) as like the Muslims. Difference is a lot (a great lot) of us Catholics are against sex abuse by our clergymen and the subsequent cover-ups and say so, whereas hardly any Muslims of importance have spoken out in anyway against terrorism.

[ClearBlueSky]

I said nothing about the laity. I am a member of that laity, and I am speaking out here and locally- as I sure you and others are.

I was talking about the 'officials' of the Church and the priests themselves. Here the spokesman for the diocese is someone I grew up with and I am disgusted to hear him read the 'party line'. I haven't seen any groups of priests locally( New Orleans)raging against homosexuals in the priesthood. I've heard one or two in the media HINT that that is the main problem, but the very people who should be morally outraged are being PC or silent.

The pedophilia issue is public now, and the Church is being forced to face it; but it is also being used as a diversion away from the ROOT problem. Homosexuality in the Church.