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(1). They wrongly reported the incidents as 'pedohpilia', when in fact it was a homosexual problem.

While I agree that the problem is homosexual in nature, many, many of the victims were young boys ... 10,11,12 and up. The problem has not been exaggerated. Instead, the Catholic Church has stalled and diminished the scope of the problem.

One thing the Church should NOT do is try to make excuses, or minimize the problem. It makes these purpled clerics look contemptible, and no one believes them anyway.

The clerical sexual abuse crisis was the single worst scandal in the history of the Catholic Church in the US.

Roman cardinals should apologize, and apologize, and otherwise shut their mouths. They're doing the rest of us Catholics no favors.

"While I agree that the problem is homosexual in nature, many, many of the victims were young boys ... 10,11,12 and up. The problem has not been exaggerated. Instead, the Catholic Church has stalled and diminished the scope of the problem."

Many queers like 'em young, they are, after all, perverts. True pedophilia, by definition, is the sexual abuse of pre-pubescent boys and girls. Pedophiles do not discriminate sexually, and they target all children, usually the very young ones. When virtually all of the victims are males, and virtually all of these males are sexually mature, (post pubescent), the problem is totally homosexual in nature..... homosexual rape of boys to be exact. As I said in my previous post, the media intentionally carped on the term 'pedophilia' to take the heat off their homosexual darlings.

The problem has been greatly exaggerated by the media because they failed miserably to focus on the much larger national problem of child sexual abuse. Bashing the Catholic Church sells much more newspapers and protects the liberal institution of public schools from a much more deserved focus.

My earlier post showed that there were far more child sex abusers in Texas public schools than there were priests in the entire country. Any fair reporting, any honest concern for children, would have mandated the reporting of ALL child sexual abuse, and it would have contrasted the relatively small percentage of priestly abuse as compared to secular professions. The shocking lack of focus on the bigger problem that exists in our public schools and other professions was more than a little revealing.

The problem has not been exaggerated. Instead, the Catholic Church has stalled and diminished the scope of the problem.

Wrong. Totally exaggerated. Most cases are over 20 yrs old and past the statute of limitations. I don't see much if anything that's current.

The church considers homosexual activity devient behavior, has been fighting incursion into its ranks, as do the Boy Scouts of America, who are also targets of the homosexual lobby.

The Cardinal is right but I'll go one better, it's all basically Catholic bashing. No different in what's being attempted in the bashing of Mel Gibson for the 'Passion'.