An excerpt regarding moral problems with the clergy regarding drink, gambling, lustful desires and other sins. No one is impervious as it is the same sins that affect all.
"Help for clerics who lust after different life path by
Hazel Trice Edney
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
Similar stories are repeated in city after city, leaving behind devastated wives and families, angry and divided congregations, preachers fighting their own leadership boards and ending tortured in personal humiliation and self-loathing.
Hundreds of ministerial leaders stepped forward at the Jakes conference, confessing to weaknesses, failures and sins that they would normally preach about to their congregations. Following the conference, Jakes has been directing pastors to the American Association of Christian Counselors in Forest, Va., which has a network of 7,000 counselors across the country."
http://www.prometheus6.org/week/node/2004/02/08
I don't deny that it affects all churches.
I just maintain that the legal, monetary, and social effects of the ongoing sex abuse cases within the Catholic church shows it is by far the worst.
It is the only one that has an endemic problem that the hierarchy has left to ferment. Do I need to quote the titles of many books, written by Catholics in the know, about this?
Get real.