[terycarl]

Did you or did you not suggest the one abused by priests were at fault because they didn’t speak up? IIRC I told you to request the post be pulled.

Absolutely not...IF they were true victims, and MANY were not, they deserve our sympathy. Some of them, however, only became victims when large settlements were being discussed....there were a minority of them who were willing participants because many of the incidents were homosexual attractions.

I was an altar boy, knew many altar boys, went to nice organized campouts, picnics etc designed to reward us and never heard of one one incidence of abuse of any kind....Milwaukee archdiocese.

As the picture of the abuse began to unfold, I immediately smelled a rat...while many were undoubtedly true and certainly mishandled by the church....many were total attempts to get in on the money bandwagon. I justify none of it, but it is such a miniscule part of church history as to be meaningless in the large picture....you do not judge the Catholic church by a virtual handfull of deranged employees who abused their possitions.

[ealgeone]

>>Did you or did you not suggest the one abused by priests were at fault because they didn’t speak up? IIRC I told you to request the post be pulled.<<

Absolutely not...IF they were true victims, and MANY were not, they deserve our sympathy. Some of them, however, only became victims when large settlements were being discussed....there were a minority of them who were willing participants because many of the incidents were homosexual attractions.

TC, you're embarrassing yourself again. You're making the same insinuation you did previously.

The thread's still out there. Too many other comments followed yours saying you were blaming the victim. Fortunately for you, your original comment was removed by the RM.

My advice to you is to quit trying to dig out of this hole. It's only getting deeper.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“GENEVA — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-reveals-how-many-priests-defrocked-for-sex-abuse-since-2004/

I wouldn’t call that a handful. I believe there were also many not reported.

It was/is a plague.

Worse, these priests were shuffled around by bishops to protect them.