[Dr. Eckleburg]

Ultimately, when problems don't go away and evil things are repeated and defended and covered up, over and over and over, the conclusion to be drawn is that the institution behind these problems doesn't really consider them to be problems at all.

Eventually it becomes pretty clear the institution must want it that way.

Or else it would be different.

The RCC has been wringing its hands publicly while privately turning a blind eye to pederast priests for decades if not centuries.

Rome isn't some small-town cub scout troop with with an errant scout master. It's a global network of money and power and yet this homosexual/pederasty problem is just too gosh darn difficult for all these grown men to figure out how to fix.

It's nothing less than a criminal enterprise. And the fact that they're not all rotting in jail tells us once again it is, indeed, a fallen world.

[Quix]

YUP.

[marshmallow]

Rome isn't some small-town cub scout troop with with an errant scout master. It's a global network of money and power and yet this homosexual/pederasty problem is just too gosh darn difficult for all these grown men to figure out how to fix.It's nothing less than a criminal enterprise.

That's actually the rhetoric that will be used when the gloves come off and the persecution of the Church becomes open, organized and officially sanctioned by governments and courts. The other pieces of the jig-saw puzzle will be hate crimes against homosexuals for persistently spreading the teaching that homosexuality is abnormal, denial of human rights to women for its stand against abortion and complicity in the spread of deadly diseases for its refusal to sanction condom use in the fight against AIDS. However, the clerical abuse issue will be the clincher.

I presume that not only the hierarchy but also those Catholics who steadfastly defend the Church will also be rounded up.

Want to arrest me?

I'd consider it an absolute honor!!

'Course, you'll have have your own Twilight Zone moment when you find yourself allied with militant gays, atheistic secularists and various other miscreants and liars but I guess that's of no real concern when you're a member of the "elect", your ticket's already punched and you're fighting against the primary source of evil in the universe.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It is true that there are ethical principles, but there are reasons, that, for example, lead certain women to have an abortion. I have paid for abortions.

This priest sounds like he could be a pastor in the liberal mainline PCUSA, (Presbyterian Church USA), where they get abortion coverage for their families in their medical plan.