[count-your-change]

Having read Lawler’s book, The Faithful Departed (The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture), I can highly recommend it. He has an insider's view but with rare objectivity.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It's convenient to think the pederast priest scandal is a 20th century perversion.

In fact, it is not an anomaly, but the way of things within the papacy and it always has been.

From centuries ago when Rome castrated young boys for its choirs, a hierarchy of men who shun marriage and family and children is conducive to all sorts of sexual sins.

This is not just a homosexual problem. It is a problem of a priesthood which is now and has been for centuries filled with men who consider themselves to be "another Christ."

And thus, they believe they are "entitled."