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"Two billion dollars and hundreds of years of history says this isn’t so."

You couldn't be more wrong. I am not claiming that the Church and children have not been victimized, but that victimization was committed by abhorrent individuals, not the institution of the Catholic Church.

The Church is an institution founded on the principles of faith, forgiveness and redemption. Over the years there have been well over a million priests, some of them truly wolves in sheep's clothing. To demand that the Church reject its founding principles because of the sins of a few would make it nothing more than another fading Protestant denomination.

Spin away. There was no scandal, it was all made up by the newspapers, lies told by haters of the Catholic church, only a few (forget the officials bending over backwards to protect known child rapists) priests involved, the “other guys” are just as bad, “the institution of the Catholic Church” knew nothing of the victimization for years, the victims were not twice victimized by the institution that failed to do what it was obligated to do, the corruption practiced by the clergy never happened, yada, yada, yada.....But last and most important?

NATURAL LAW PRONOUNCES THAT WHAT WAS CHURCH POLICY WAS NOT!

And with that your comment has rec'd more of my attention than it warrants. Now I'll back to ignoring you.