Thanks for this post and for #352 also.
You said it well.
Your words make common sense and a true sense of justice for all concerned—the need for right and just punishment for the guilty and also justice for all who are innocent, including priests who have remained faithful to their calling.
It’s over-the-top to paint all priests as homosexuals, as men who are not “normal”. That approach does take on the attributes of the kind of media smearing that is thrown at political conservatives. And it also “brands” all Catholic priests as predators, and all Catholics in the pews as defenders of predators. That is an injustice and a mirror of liberal tactics-—the smearing and the targeting of a particular people.
It’s over-the-top to paint all priests as homosexuals, as men who are not “normal”. That approach does take on the attributes of the kind of media smearing that is thrown at political conservatives. And it also “brands” all Catholic priests as predators, and all Catholics in the pews as defenders of predators. That is an injustice and a mirror of liberal tactics-—the smearing and the targeting of a particular people.
Perhaps you could provide of list of clergy who have been prosecuted and found to be innocent...
We can see that your religion has been very successful at hiding and protecting these criminal priests and even promoting them to higher positions...Cardinal Law comes to mind...
One can only assume then that for the few who are caught, many, many more are successfully passed thru the system...How many would you think become bishops, cardinals and popes???