[ArrogantBustard]

And I want them to admit finally that living a celibate life is for the great majority of people, and while recognizing celibacy as a real vocation for a few, unnatural and the source of much spiritual disease. After all of this we the laity have a right to demand married parish priests and and absolute end to these perverts in Roman collars.

I think you're seriously barking up the wrong tree, there. I think it's absolutely wrong to conflate the ancient discipline of clerical celibacy with the deliberate attempt by various leftists to infiltrate the clergy with homosexual predators. Perverts entered the ranks of the clergy not because of the rules, but because the rules were not enforced.

After all of this we the laity have a right to demand

There you go again.

Demand away. In your own name.

YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME.

Quit trying to do so.

I completely disagree with your apparent fetish for protestant-style married clergy.

[Erskine Childers]

Please explain why Mahoney, Law and Weakland have not been laicized.

Or perhaps better, please explain why I as a lay person should not take Pope Benedict's failure to laicize these sick men as anything other than a finger in the eye to my nephew and all the multitude of other victims of perverts in Roman collars?