“Hundreds of predatory priests. How many more across the US and worldwide—protected by the church.”
I don’t think you are a Catholic.
I have been a Catholic all my life. I have never been approached by a predatory priest.
The so called “predatory priests” were a small group of homosexuals who protected and promoted each other. Almost none had sex with children. Far fewer than in the general population. The so called “sex with minors” were homosexual priests and boys in their late teens.
Accusations going back 70 years are almost impossible to prove or disprove. That is probably the point. To make a lot of accusations to defame the innocent and the guilty.
” I have never been approached by a predatory priest.”
I have, and I was 11 or 12 at the time. Alter boy.
I don’t know just how prevalent it is, but it is not unheard of. Or impossible.
I am not going to debate who is Catholic and who is not. That is insulting. Maybe you are lucky, I was as well, but the news is clear that there are plenty of homosexual and predatory clergy. The Vatican, for the survival of the church, needs to take a leading role in this and end its cover-up and protection of these clergy. They need to be rounded up, tried, convicted, and executed.
300 priests is not a small group
Homosexuality has nearly destroyed the Catholic Church
I’m a godfather to a lovely catholic girl in lumberton Texas
Same thing her priest diddling young boys
I told her momma
That padre is a queer
Her momma was like hush your mouth
He got caught some time later
I hate it
They get protected by other queers with power in the church
It’s Satan is what it is
It’s his wormhole into the an institution that in its glory days preserved western civilization and fought back the crescent savages
Detective, I may be confused. Are you defending or minimizing the acts of these men of the church, and their bishop protectors?