[knarf]

GET on him or get OFF Cos.

Consistency

[allendale]

This will continue to happen until the Church makes celibacy optional and forcefully purges the clergy of all homosexuals.

[JimRed]

Homosexuals should not be working where they have access to children, period. The vow of priestly celibacy is between themselves and God, but enough of them break it that they (homosexuals, not priests in general) are all suspect.

[MaxMax]

This is NY, they’ll probably force him to marry one of those shildren.

[Rashputin]

This stuff is a plague because society and porn exposes people to it who would never think of it on their own. Like it or not, people succumb to dark forces more powerful than they are if they're ever exposed to them and modern electronic society has plenty of ways to profit from exposing people to such things.

All over the country molesting minors is extremely common in all sorts of situations. It's seldom reported except on local news, if that. A daily search for such things in the nooks and crannies of small or medium sized news stations will usually find at least one such report in the news somewhere.

Any reasonably good attorney can get a plea bargain given the desire of the parents of the molested children to not have the names of their children made public. A local DA isn't usually going to bull ahead with a trial if the parents are totally uncooperative. Hence most such things tend to "fade away" with little fanfare and the majority of the population remains unaware of how widespread it is.

Most places tend to report it then sweep it under the rug as fast as they can if it even makes the cut for the evening news when it happens.

[Batman11]

Maybe the Pope should stop worrying about global warming and concentrate more on stopping these guys from grabbing little kid’s weiners!

[terycarl]

won’t give up bashing the Catholic church, will you....pathetic