[Mrs. Don-o]

Read the Charol Shakeshaft research (Google.) She's not just talking about raw totals: she's talking about percentages and per-capitas.

This doesn't justify any abuse...by anyone The wholet thing is a travesry. But the thig ou have to realize is that adults who have a twisted sexual attraction to the "young stuff" are disproportionately attracted to the professions where they will have the most ample opportunities to interact with their prey. This means:

• counselors and therapists
• coaches, recreation directors
• summer camp, youth activities coordinators
• clergy
• teachers I am not advocating a paranoid view of any adult who shows a strong preference for working with kids. But the reality is, we are living in a pathologically sexualized culture, and the predators -- predictably -- gravitate toward the prey.

[FormerLib]

But the reality is, we are living in a pathologically sexualized culture, and the predators -- predictably -- gravitate toward the prey.

Yes, the homosexuals infiltrated the ranks of the Catholic clergy because they knew this would give them access to the young. They did "gravitate toward the prey" as you stated. Allowing them to marry would not have changed this.

However, had married men been allowed to serve as parish priests, perhaps the Church would have been more willing to weed out those who ultimately preyed upon the children.