The fact that so many, including the Catholic clergy, don't understand how big this is says volumes about just how bad things are in our day.
When you regularly slaughter defensless, unborn infants (a practice that supposedly these same clergy decry), it isn't that far to go to objectification of children, making them fair game for molestations and worse.
Thus, people like you don't see "the big deal."
My God, do you realize that we've been seeing one instance after another, all over this country, where priests were SENT TO PRISON after having repeated their offenses time and time again, and having been PROTECTED by the closed society that is the American Roman Catholic hierarchy?
At first, I thought it was only a few isolated cases. Now they're coming up with case after case after case, not just of allegations but of ACTUAL CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS, or LEGAL SETTLEMENTS, or whatever.
So, yes, this IS a "Big Story," and the fear is that, given the increasingly closed ranks on the part of that hierarchy as it seeks to protect ITSELF from the onslaught, the story is even BIGGER than anyone knows at this point!
If the Church were to fully cooperate and disclose all its records regarding these criminals, I fear the world would stand agog at the great evil that has been wrought here.
Spare me. The story is just a glorified database listing crimes that were, for the most part, already known. Bringing to light significant new crimes would have been a big story. The Morning News is desperate for readership and Nightline is desperate for viewership. The database is a very useful tool but hardly lives up to the hype.