[Desdemona]

I think that it gets media play because of the number of victims. It's not unusual for a predator Priest to have a huge number of victims.

This is what needs to brought out and is not. The actual number of predators was low in comparison to the number of victims. And who knows how many were victimized by any one predator before he was reported. The predators choose carefully - where they think they can get away with it.

It gets media play because of the institution. The Catholic Church will always be a target.

[sinkspur]

It gets media play because of the institution. The Catholic Church will always be a target.

No. It gets media play because the institutional church, in the personages of large numbers of bishops, did not imitate Him whom it purports to follow.

The Church is a target in regards to sexual abuse because the bishops' first concern was themselves, and not the victims.

That's cold-blooded.