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Or are you one of those who think that small businesses and naturally less corrupt than big businesses?

Robby, I hope you don't think I just feel this way about Catholics, I'd feel the same way about any deviate that takes advantage of their office to misuse people, especially children.

It doesn't seem like most other Churches have the same problem dealing with it that you do though.

The Church is a big target and so it gets a lot of attention. Franklin Graham had taken a lot of hits from the press for his views on Islam --which I more or less share--while smaller fry with the same views are ignored. To be sure, there is among priests a "clubiness,"a sense of "specialness" among priests that makes them more tolerant of each other's weaknesses than one finds among Protestant ministers. The postive aspect is a kind of "band of brothers" feeling; the negative is a sense of "us against the world" attitude. Because the church is hierarchialand paternalistic, it is a lot like the military, with bishops and priests serving as the officer corps. Those of us among the "enlisted." --the laity--have mixed feelinsg about our leaders.