[Antoninus]

The only reason there are so many predator infiltrators within the Catholic Church is because we are the biggest Church with the largest footprint in the world. And because we have a very prominent catechetical position that sex outside of marriage is a sin, and sodomy is a very grave sin. If they can take us down, they'll eventually come for every micro-Protty denomination too. They've already infested/ruined most of the larger ones. All the "christian" churches I see with freak flags out are some flavor of Protestant.

So maybe get that beam out of your eye at some point, yes?

[ansel12]

“””The only reason there are so many predator infiltrators within the Catholic Church is because we are the biggest Church with the largest footprint in the world.”””

You know better than that.
Single men are not devoting their entire life to the 60 year career of being a priest just to infiltrate the Catholic Church and to possibly be caught by police in their 70s.

This is an institutional and an institutionalized situation, not random NAMBLA deviants being weeded out in hiring, and then being hunted down, investigated, and convictions being pursued when they slip through.

[CTrent1564]

Well said and correct. God is bringing this to light, first his Church, but since all the abuse of minors first broke over 20 years ago, we have seen more and more of this going on across society in protestant confessions. For example, Southern Baptist the most evangelical of the protestant groups have had major scandals and we don’t know all of it because some SBC groups say that are part of conference and don’t have to report to the Convention. Other protestant groups have issues but have not done any research on the problem. So I give the Southern Baptist Convention credit for taking this problem on.

Obviously, in secular society among boy scouts, teachers and sports coaches, and just within family situations as well, we see this evil behavior as well.