[Rockingham]

The problem of significant sexual misconduct among Catholic clergy is not just the rate but that such misconduct was so long tolerated and accommodated by the hierarchy. In part, this was due to bad advice from lay experts, but a pernicious "pink mafia" of gay clerics was also at work.

The end result was a large contingent of victims, which eventually led to devastating publicity and law suits that wrecked the reputation, moral authority, and finances of the Catholic Church in the US and much of the developed world.

As a cradle Catholic with a K-12 Catholic education, I have no doubt that firm application of Catholic doctrines against homosexuality and for the protection of the innocence of children would have averted much of this tragedy.

As for sexual misconduct in other denominations and professions, I do not see how this excuses such failings in the modern Catholic Church, especially in the way they stem from its unwillingness to be resolutely Catholic.

[ealgeone]

And now your denomination is blessing same sex relationships.