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....”Once this man was laicized and turned loose on society...well, another person out there suffered and probably now has a life ruined”.....

I think what needs to be remembered is just that...life is ruined for the victims of these crimes and added to this knowing that those who assaulted them will not do jail time for their crimes. A few perhaps, but on the whole it doesn't appear to be the case, so they are indeed on the lose, and no doubt others will be victims.

In part our society is equally as much to blame for these victims as we allow the homosexual agenda to continue... and I do believe Christ will hold us accountable for this. Homosexuality is not a lifestyle as it's “prettied” to be. It is a choice of who and where one selects sex with. It is a sexual sin against another as well as ones own body...needless to say against God...and the results affect the whole body of believers. Including those of other denominations.

Though I am not catholic I feel greatly for those within the denomination who have to contend and rid their church of this...it is an ugly foe to face and will not loosen it's stronghold quickly. May Christ himself strengthen and give great courage to those who can and will rid this from the church.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the problem, at least in the dioceses US, has largely been dealt with. There's a handful of bishops within five years of retirement who are the holdouts, if anything is going on. And NO ONE world-wide has been more on the ball than the current pope. NO ONE. The more recent charges are against priests in various orders who don't answer to the bishops. It's going to take a couple generations to get traditionally minded people back to the top of the orders, but it's happening.

This is not an easy issue. "Jail time" doesn't necessarily mean in the Big House. I'm all for not laicizing such men but stripping them of their priestly faculties and placing them in a monastery on some remote island. That's just as imprisoning as any jail. The big problem is separating the truly guilty from innocent men accused of crimes they did not commit. There's been any number of those, too. Just because an accusation has been made, doesn't mean the incident actually happened. And the trials take years, just as civil and criminal trials do. Justice is a good thing, but the Church has to be sure it truly is just and not do the knee jerk thing whenever a headline appears.