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Why didn't the Catholic Church follow that lead? Why did the reputation of the Church, it's assets, it's concern about replacements, etc. prevent those who KNEW about such abuse for years continue to turn a blind eye?

I think that is because the Communists seeded infiltrators into *several* layers of the Roman hierarchy; that, and the fact remains that the lavender mafia looks after its own.

Sometimes I wonder whether or not Matthew 23:15 was meant for the Marxists as much as the Pharisees...

NO cheers, unfortunately.

It's that no one denies that there are sinners who sin in every walk of life and that those involved in the work of God are especially hard hit.

And yet we see the same tired posts on priests from the 70s and 60s re-posted again and again by the anti-Catholic ones. This is doing the work of the secularists who hate all Christians.

I'm sure many non-Catholics agree to your statement above, boatbums, yet the ones who frequent the "philadelphia priest ..." etc. type threads don't see it that way. They see it as another way to attack the Church.

What they don't realise is that they serve the secularists by doing this attack. Instead of focusing on doctrine or saying simple "good, you learned from this, force your hierarchy to never do this mistake again", it becomes a flame thread, with everything but the kitchen sink tossed in.

And of course, this gets escalation from other side, with głupi pictures added in..

Notice also the timelines -- the non-Catholic pastors acts are now, the Catholic pastors did their evil in the past and if you read through it you'll see that they were given "remedial actions-- in line with the 60s-70s liberal feeling" that things could be resolved by just saying "ok, go for a month's counciling" or "let's just put him somewhere else and he'll stop" -- this was stupid, yes, stupid of the bishops and they should be castigated for this. Any priest who does this now is taken away from active "duty" and if convicted is defrocked.