[FITZ]

I don't think they are Conservatives in the Church which did the cover-up, they were people who believed the modern liberal way of thinking --- that all sinners can be redeemed (or cured) with the right kind of therapy and counseling. That everyone is good at heart and wants to be cured or redeemed. I think many of these bishops actually believe a pedophile can just quit so they crossed their fingers and covered up. It's the same reason secular judges are releasing child molestors into neighborhoods where children live, and why some people even say the sex offenders lists with pictures and addresses are unfair, they're all doing the same thing the bishops did, they're hoping the pedophiles will just stop.

[Friend of thunder]

I don't think they are Conservatives in the Church which did the cover-up, they were people who believed the modern liberal way of thinking --- that all sinners can be redeemed (or cured) with the right kind of therapy and counseling.

All sinners – i.e. all of us – can be redeemed. Cure and redemption are not the same thing; although redemption brings cure – or at least the ability to resist what may have been previously irresistible temptation.

[Dec31,1999]

Re:372

I agree. but that's what's happening now.Don't forget that this has been going on for decades, and probably longer, and includes the eras in which society was much more conservative than it is now.

Can you imagine a Catholic boy in the 50's complaining about the trusted priest touching and sucking his what? Or worse? See what I mean?

[Dec31,1999]

I think many of these bishops actually believe a pedophile can just quit so they crossed their fingers and covered up.

I think many of these bishops probably committed the same crimes, so they were sympathetic, not to mention not wanting to be exposed by their angry underlings.The problem is systemic.