[grania]

I'm not anti-Catholic, having been raised Catholic and being given a wonderful education at a Catholic college.

You don't serve your cause, not at all, if you say that somehow this was a witch-hunt or given too much coverage by an over-zealous press, or not that many children (statistically) were involved.

Until the Church can say that every pervert is out of the priesthood, that every claim has been investigated, and that any priest with links to homosexuality and/or pedophilia is removed from the priesthood and the parents of the children he had contact with are informed of his behaviors, it's an issue.

Even one child being abused is too many. Accept that and accept the fact that the press about this horrible situation is justified. Until that happens, these attitudes are part of the problem, still.

[Dog Gone]

Whether or not the Vatican is correct about misleading news coverage, I can assure them that this statement will be perceived by the general public as more denial of the problem.

If they believe this statement was positive spin control, they are greatly mistaken.

[Conservative til I die]

Even one child being abused is too many.

Even one child being killed by firearms is too many.

Now do you see what we're getting at, about statistics being overstated? No one's minimizing the victims' suffering, we're just talking about the facts here.