>> Then how do you explain the married fundamentalist ministers, like Ted Haggard, who have been involved in homosexual scandals in recent years? <<
Ted was a Meth Head sex Addict who could have used a daily dosage of finistride.
So, when a Protestant falls, it is weakness of his character. When a Catholic does the same thing, it is due to institutional failings.
The pope goes into Holy Week and Good Friday much as Jesus Christ - spat upon, slandered, lied about, accused of blasphemy.
How much deeper his faith must be becoming as he gets to carry the Cross of Christ on such a celebrated anniversary.
Would you pray for him? Would you pray for His(Jesus’) Church?
Satan is always swirling all about the Church for he knows to crack a priest is to send scandal and satisfaction to all feigned dis-believers and to break the weak Catholics from the fold, as the media and the ignorant commenters are doing.
Naturally, priests will be tempted moreso than the general population, which is why the stronger are called - and that evens out to what the general population experiences in terms of fallen instances.
So many Christians should convert to Osama’s form of Islam, where unforgiveness and mercy killing is more in agreement with their actual practiced faith.