[SouthernFreebird]

But gay child molesting priests are just moved to another place...?

[Cheverus]

Really, that was an unecessary comment. You can throw stones at anyones Clergy.

Please be charitable.

The crux of the article is a particular "denomination" in this case being Catholic, standing up for it's beliefs.

I am a Catholic working for a Protestant organization that had to sign a morality clause that if I violate I'm out on my ear.

[Robertsll]

But gay child molesting priests are just moved to another place...?

How is that comment relevant to this article?

Not only is it not relevant, it is an untrue broad generalization. (You are right about the majority of molesting clergy were gay, not pedophiles. Calling the vast majority of them pedophiles is another myth of the media.)

"The belief that bishops moved child abusers from parish to parish, allowing them to abuse over and over, may well be one of the greatest myths created by the press coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Church. This has become the conventional wisdom of the press, and also of many Catholics. But is it true? Research done in recent years casts doubt on that widely accepted belief.

The most important study of this issue was conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The researchers acknowledged that because of the bishops' cooperation, the study was based on "an almost unheard of 97 per cent response rate." Commenting on the data, Karen Terry, PhD, and James P. Levine, PhD, the Principal Investigator and the Administrative Coordinator of the Study, stated categorically:

"It is clear that transferring priests with allegations of child sexual abuse was not a general response to the problem, and was limited to a finite number of cases."

Bishops did not generally move abusing clergy around because they were very often not aware of the abuse taking place. In recent years, a torrent of accusations of sexual abuse of minors by clergy has inundated the Church and society. It is natural to assume that Church authorities were aware of all these accusations and that they ignored them. The press certainly tends to affirm that belief. However, it is far from true.

Were abusive priests shuffled among parishes?

[Theoden]

How is that relevant to a teacher being fired for breaking a legal contract?

Actually, your comment is a nasty stereotype of Catholic priests, less than 3% of the clergy committed those atrocities, and yes, they should be punished. Proportionally, it is the same for all protestant and evangelical denominations. The fact that the Church is so much larger than the others, and that the media is so ardently anti-Catholic, greatly distorted the scandal, making it look like it was much more widespread than what it was.

I can use stereotypes the way you do too. You're a southern female, and it would be all too easy to say some things about you based on that knowledge, and applying nasty stereotypes to it. I don't want to go there. Maybe you should think about what you write beforehand, when you purposely go on threads like these to start flame wars by letting you're anti-Catholic bigotry out. BTW, please don't try and claim that you aren't, I have seen you on Catholic threads in the past, making similar comments (and No, I will not go through the archived posts to cite examples, it is not worth my time). If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, you may have heard of this...