[Antoninus]

What was the penalty God required for such things when He gave His law to Moses? When people claim they got sent from God they alone elevate their own standards. This nonsense of ‘everybody is doing it’ just won't float.

On the contrary, we Catholics are happier to be held to a higher standard than Protestants or secular folks. That's not the issue. The issue is that the sex abuse scandal is being used disingenuously by people who hate Catholics and who don't otherwise give a d@mn about sex abuse.

The rank hypocrisy is my complaint here.

[Just mythoughts]

On the contrary, we Catholics are happier to be held to a higher standard than Protestants or secular folks. That's not the issue. The issue is that the sex abuse scandal is being used disingenuously by people who hate Catholics and who don't otherwise give a d@mn about sex abuse. The rank hypocrisy is my complaint here.

I always have to say this to give a glimmer from whence I speak. I married into a liberal Catholic family. So when the call outs come that liberal Catholics only attend church at high mass, do not know what they are talking about.

To have a person who is called Father as in GOD the Father, abuse a child in such a perverted manner is not even comparable to the regular perverts.