[rbmillerjr]

Then the Church needs to aggressively attack this problem, there are clearly many predator priests out there. I am not leaving my child in a situation where he will be alone with a priest.

For example Fr Spagnolia, refused to leave his rectory when told to by Cardinal Law. He manipulated his congregation into applauding and defending him (even though the are totally ignorant of the charges), Spagnolia then went on O'Reilly and lied again.

One day later Spagnolia, admitted to 2 "consensual" homosexual relationships. I suspect this too is a lie and "consensual" is being debated.

[KC Burke]

there are a lot of "predator" everythings out and about....it has little to do with the nature of the Catholic Church and much to do with our leftist-liberalism corrupted society.

[american colleen]

Spagnolia had relationships with adults - that is a matter of record. We need to get rid of him and his ilk. I fell for his press conference when I saw it and hoped "good" Priests were finally speaking out - turns out that Spagnolia lied, of course.

I read an article that stated that a disproportionate amount of these Priests came out of St. John's Semanary in Brighton, Ma in the 60s and 70s - the admittance heads turned away the more traditional kind of applicants and let in the liberal candidates. One of the big questions was the ordination of women - if you firmly held the belief that a woman priest was unacceptible, then you were out. Supposidly, Cardinal Law has changed all that and gotten the liberals out of the Semenary. Hopefully, that is true.

[Renatus]

there are clearly many predator priests out there.

I don't doubt it for a minute. The struggle is breaking through all of this and keeping our focus on the beauty and strength and power given to priests as instruments of God's grace. When I come to die I hope and pray every day that a priest will be with me to give me communion, to anoint me, to forgive me my sins and to pray with me. It's all about grace. Everything is grace. If the priest should happen to be a pedophile I will thank him for being that instrument of grace for me.

We all know that not all priests are pedophiles or homosexuals but all now have a "P" or "H" in scarlet letters printed on their foreheads because of weak bishops and a wicked press. I hope we will not lose our respect for them for truly they are instruments of God's grace and power and are men called by God, consecrated and configured to Jesus as head and shepherd. What an awesome calling is theirs.