Why oh why won’t they ever understand that it is particularly heinous in the RCC, because the Church sets itself up as the ONLY way to salvation. A child who is sexually abused in the RCC loses not only his innocence, but if he tells, he is in mortal fear of losing his only way to salvation. The RCC pedophile priest takes that child’s body AND his soul. And holds over him the “power” to retain or remit that child’s sins forever.
>> The power is Christ’s. Your comment is shear Donatism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatism
A priest does not lose his sacramental abilities because of his personal unworthiness of his office.
Corruption is found wherever you have human beings. There’s plenty of it to go around in your own sect.