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Well, I would respect the request of a victim's parents who ask me not to notify the police.

You apparently would ignore their plea.

You also would apparently consider it your duty as bishop to keep tabs on a man who is no longer a priest or a representative of the Church.

It's a difficult situation, but I think even if the parents don't want the police involved, you still have to involve them. The child is the victim, not the parents.

Believe me no is more saddened by this whole controversy (well obviously other than the victims) than me. I was an altar boy and as it happens there was an abusive priest at my Church.

Thank God he didn't try to touch me (I would really miss my dad--- he would have shot the pervert dead and would have spent a few years in the state pen), but I found out years later that this priest molested a classmate of mine. This was almost 20 years ago, he was arrested a couple of years ago for molesting an altar boy and only then did his other victims come forward. Did my bishop have any suspicions and let this priest continue on? I don't know and frankly the fact that I have to wonder is depressing.

The devil couldn't contrive a better way to divorce people from the Church than by letting evil men wear priestly robes.

Well, I would respect the request of a victim's parents who ask me not to notify the police. You apparently would ignore their plea.

What a singularly ignorant statement. You don't "respect the request of a victim's parents" when such a request is unethical and would lead to possible future victimizing of others.

That's a horribly anti-social attitude.