[Choozer]

Pedophiles are attracted to any profession that gives them authority over and/or access/entrust them to children. They become priests, ministers, teachers, principals, police officers, and various other positions that give them access. This is no indictment of any of these professions, but rather evidence of how widespread wickedness is.

[MacMattico]

So true. As a parent you have to be so vigilant. As a Catholic, I have only come across fantastic, caring Priests but I remain ever watchful. I feel bad because the great Priests I know are looked at differently by some in the community that aren't Catholic and from what they think they know they assume all Priests are pedophiles. Our church speaks very openly about child abuse and each grade level attends a class, once a year with their parents, to discuss on an age appropriate level what molestation and child abuse is and the importance of reporting it.