[RegulatorCountry]

Thus far, I see no condemnations of the sexual abuse that has occurred, just condemnations of people who have done so and gone perhaps overboard in their anger.

That’s where people like Anne Rice are getting such an impression. You can easily correct that. Condemn the priests who have sexually abused children over whom they had or have authority. Make it absolutely clear that such behavior is not condoned, from anyone. Advocate the immediate removal and turning over of such priests and even bishops to civil authorities, so they will be held to account.

See? Not such a difficult thing. Follow this and no one will have any grounds, real or imagined, to imply complicity.

[Leaning Right]

Advocate the immediate removal and turning over of such priests and even bishops to civil authorities, so they will be held to account.

I agree with your post entirely. And I would add one more thing. The Church must publicly revoke the pensions of those retired priests who were involved in abuse crimes.

As a whole, the Catholic Church does an enormous amount of good. And the West will need strong institutions in the coming conflicts with radical islam.

But the Church must first heal itself. Completely.

[ncalburt]

Anne Rice is sadly unstable . My wife’s relative worked for her husband in his art gallery and Anne was up and down all the time . She left Nola after her husband’s death moved to Rancho Mirage and now she is selling her house there and moving back to Nola.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The sex abuse rate among Catholic priests is the same as the rate of abusers in the general population.

Anything you say about the Catholic Church in this matter applies equally to any group of people you care to mention.

But the Catholic Church is evil.

Makes sense to idiots, I guess.

[Petrosius]

Condemn the priests who have sexually abused children over whom they had or have authority. Make it absolutely clear that such behavior is not condoned, from anyone. Advocate the immediate removal and turning over of such priests and even bishops to civil authorities, so they will be held to account.

That has been done hundreds of times both by the hierarchy and here on Free Republic but is never acknowledged. Some are so twisted by hatred of the Catholic Church that they want to believe that it is by nature a criminal organization. No actions to clean out those criminals who have acted against the teachings and morals of the Church will ever satisfy them.

[Antoninus]

Thus far, I see no condemnations of the sexual abuse that has occurred,

You are either blind or lying. I've been on FR since 1998 and since that time, there has been a group of Catholics on here who have been actively working to expose and remove homosexual-friendly priests and bishops who are at the core of this scandal.

You Johnny-come-latelys speak out of profound ignorance on this subject and have no idea about the fight that's been going on for YEARS. And I am sick and tired of the pious phonies harping on it now because they heard some scurrilous media story about it yesterday.

If you want to make a real difference, condemn the pervert priests themselves, condemn homosexual infiltration into our institutions, but stop using the actions of homosexual pedophile priests to tar all Catholics. You will only alienate those Catholics who are otherwise your allies. That is EXACTLY what the left wants you to do.