[1000 silverlings]

There’s no organized system with a top down heirarchy in place as in the Catholic church, protecting any of these individuals.

[metmom]

And still the question remains of why the Catholic church has not dealt with it in the thousands of years of its history.

Why have they not followed Paul’s instructions to purge the evil from within them?

[topcat54]

There’s no organized system with a top down heirarchy in place as in the Catholic church, protecting any of these individuals.

Very true. But since many of these churches are insulated from any sort of outside, or even inside scrutiny, sometimes those in authority feel untouchable. After all, who is going to question the word of a man of the cloth that we’ve known for umpteen years? Who watches the watchers?