[mwl1]

This speech is more of the circle-the-wagons mentality.... akin to "our priests just cannot help themselves because of popular culture giving us sex 24/7."

Nonsense. Where is the grace of God that is supposed to inoculate these men from temptation. This pathetic excuse could be used by any adulterer in America, and it does not wash.

I am a life-long, practicing Roman Catholic. Go ahead and freep me. I am disgusted by the Church's attempt to deflect blame onto others.

The Church is not the victim. The innocent children are. There are NO mitigating factors to this horror and betrayal of trust.

[RobbyS]

And you are deflecting blame away from the men who actually molested children. Let us not forget what the crime of the bishops: they were protecting men who had performed criminal acts, and who were the men who attacked these children--actually they were usually boys in their teens? They were gay men. The same type of person who is now trying to force their way into the Boy Scouts. Please understand: gays do not reproduce: they recruit!

[steve-b]

This speech is more of the circle-the-wagons mentality.... akin to "our priests just cannot help themselves because of popular culture giving us sex 24/7." Nonsense. Where is the grace of God that is supposed to inoculate these men from temptation. This pathetic excuse could be used by any adulterer in America, and it does not wash.

The fact that it took 70 posts before somebody called this Clintonesque blame-dodging what it is says something about FR, and it ain't something good.

[Proud2BAmerican]

The Church is not the victim. The innocent children are.

Aren't the children a part of the Church?