[SoothingDave]

So Dave is asking us to believe that a pedophile priest who engages in that heinous practice over decades doesn't do so by "conscious design".

Do you believe a young man thinks to himself, "I'm going to spend the next 40 years molesting children and attempting to hide my shame"?

SD

[OLD REGGIE]

Do you believe a young man thinks to himself, "I'm going to spend the next 40 years molesting children and attempting to hide my shame"?

Is it by accident that you pose your question in rediculous extremes and then insist on a "yes" or "no" answer?

Do you believe that a young man, "Father" Shanley for example, would have no shame and would state publicly that sex with boys was ok? Would claim that the child is the seducer? Do you think such a man would be protected by the RCC for many years?

Wow! The truth is even more extreme than your far out example.