[uncbob]

If they'd all been FIRED afaer each first episode, the Catholic Church wouldn't be having to borrow money and sell property to pay off the judgements against it.

If they had all been turned into the police would be more like it. These people are committing CRIMES

[joathome]

Agreed. They hide under the cover of the confessional, as if the victim's family comes forward in the confessional.

[SamAdams76]

Exactly. If the Catholic Church had a policy of simply turning over to law enforcement any accusations of child abuse and then defrocking any priests thus convicted, they wouldn't be in the fix they are in now. In fact, they would have sent a clear message that child abusers would not be tolerated in the church and the number of pedophiles trying to become priests would have dropped to about zero. But by protecting and enabling these pedophiles, the Catholic Church apparently attracted them in droves and now they are reaping the whirlwind, so to speak.