**I still hold out hope there are conservative Roman Catholics **
Are you aware of the stringent pre-screening now done in seminaries. At least a two day psche exam for starters.
There have been threads posted about it.
Basically the seminaries in the U. S. are now cleaned up. The Pope is now working on the convents — and many of the nuns are not too happy about it. I wonder why? >sarc off
The problem is what are these tests screening for? We have no evidence there are less pederasts in the priesthood now than for centuries before.
Rome is trying to put a band-aid on its finger when its lungs have failed. The problem will not be solved through better "screening." The problem will only be solved when Rome deletes its foul doctrine of believing priests are "another Christ."
In my church, when a group of parents went to the bishop and complained of sexual abuse of their sons the bishop sprang into action. Before the parents could get home he had sped to the parish spoken to the priest and removed him from town. The priest was given professional help for a period of time, then released from active duty in the priesthood. He is no longer working for the Catholic church. Not every abuse scandal was covered up by the church, there were indeed cover-ups, but to paint the whole church by those denies that many good men are priests and never sexually abused anyone. It denies that many bishops took action ending the abuse upon learning about it. Those stories are not extolled like the cover-ups are, but it is the same church.