The denial amongst Catholics of any flaw or impropriety within the Catholic church or in regard to its actions or decisions, is simply staggering.
And just what’s a CHURCH doing filing Chapter 11 anyway?
“Pedophile,” classically, is one who is attracted to PRE-PUBESCENT children. The term for someone who is attracted to pubescent and post-pubescent children is “Ephibophile.”
The distinction is important with regard to the pathology; homosexuals frequently have ephibophile tendencies, but not particularly high rates of pedophilia. Pedophiles tend to victimize children of either gender, regardless of whether their adult relationships tend to be heterosexual or homosexual. The clerical abuse scandal is ephibophilic, and nearly entirely homosexual. In fact, using the very same statistics you point out, 78% of the abuse victims are 11 years or older.
How you extract from my comments some sort of defense of the pervert-rapists in the Catholic priesthood is beyond my comprehension. In fact, I’d even go so far as to say that the culpability of homsexual ephibophiles in the Catholic priesthood is GREATER than that of pedophiles: the targeting of adolescents by these homosexuals is quite likely a cold-blooded victimization based purely on the expectation of being more able to manipulate adolescent victims than older ones.
There is no distinction in the gravity of the mortal sins these “priests” committed while forcing themselves on innocent, naive Catholic boys, whether the children were 6 or 16.
I despise the people (usually Church hierarchy and lawyers) who invented and use the term “ephebophile” to confuse people and to distract them from the primary issue, which is this:
En masse, Catholic priests have been raping boys for at least 50 years and probably much longer!