ALL organizations that put adults in contact with children serve their interests, and I am certain you understand that better than anyone else on this thread.
That is the convenient, disgusting and incorrect defense Rome pushes out as fact when it is actually a pathetic acknowledgment that Rome has no intention of changing anything.
The RCC prefers to trash married men and fathers rather than look within to solve the corruption at the heart of its ecclesiocracy.
"Everyone does it" is not a defense, especially when that accusing finger is pointed at men and fathers. Rome is not only antagonistic toward women in general, it is equally uncomfortable with heterosexual men.
The numbers declare what Rome denies...
Thirty-seven priests accused of sexual abuse of children in one city in one diocese.
Is that astounding reality lost on members of the RCC?
That fact alone should send Roman Catholic parents to pick up their children as fast as possible and get them out of parochial schools.
37 priests in one city in one Roman Catholic diocese.
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain." -- Ezekiel 22:25-27 "There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.