[Gen. Burkhalter]

I respectfully disagree with you. While I acknowledge there was a serious problem in the Church and a lot of truly sick and depraved people slipped through the cracks, I know for a fact that reforms have been instituted and that people seeking religious orders are now subject to intense psychological and personality screening to ascertain their fitness for religious orders.

I myself, as a Church volunteer and Eucharistic Minister, was required to take a program called VIRTUS which is an extensive training and educational program on child sexual abuse. The Church IS in fact doing a better job of weeding out potential sexual deviants.

[TSgt]

The Church IS in fact doing a better job of weeding out potential sexual deviants.

We are in lock-step agreement that the church is doing a better job weeding out potential sexual deviants. But we can't dismiss these cases or the inaction or cover-up by the current leadership, i.e. Cardinal Law.

[stormer]

When discussing this issue, you may wish to refrain from the use of the phrase “slipped through the cracks”.