[MadMitch]

Exactly you cover up child abuse, move the Priests from parish to parish or out of the country and they tar the whole RCC with the same brush!
Did any other Church cover up child abuse and let the offenders reoffend?
At least the Bishop of Galway only messed around with women.

[Mad Dawg]

Yes, as a matter of fact other denominations DO cover up sexual abuse. I happen to know this because as a former Protestant clergyman I reported a serial abuser to my superiors. And guess what: They covered it up. The guy moved to another jurisdiction.

And we all need to do some thinking about the distinction between pre-pubescent child sexual abuse and "ephebephilia", not in terms of their depravity but in terms of their psychology.

You yourself could stand to do some research about WHEN the most awful and notorious of the RCC cases took place and what the prevailing psychiatric opinion on appropriate responses was at the time -- only if you're interested in the truth. If all one cares about is bashing the RCC church, then I guess the truth isn't really a concern.

Have a nice day.

[AnAmericanMother]

And here's a point worth considering:

A foster mother pays tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury's compassion

Read on into the article:

Liam Lucas was just one of the children abused by predatory paedophiles who took advantage of far-Left Islington Council's childcare policies in the Eighties and Nineties, when it pro-actively recruited gay social workers.

Paedophiles exploited its well-intentioned commitment to equal opportunities and soon most of Islington's 12 children's homes had child molesters on the staff who cynically pretended to be ordinary homosexuals. Numerous children and other staff made allegations of abuse, but were branded homophobes and ignored.

. . . religion is not the problem -- the problem is chickenhawks and liberals.