[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Gay counter-culture in America has become more aggressive and more open in the last 30 years. That's definitely a factor. But gays are not the only kooky subculture that hides behind organized religion (for whatever perverse reason). It's a powerful tool for manipulating people who try to see things with rosy glasses and have trouble understanding criminality realistically. Having been personally and intitutionally aware of some part of this problem quite a while ago, I am not at all shocked by the scandal. Only by Law's stupid answers and statements on the subject. He should resign. Along with any of the other nuts who want to whitewash pedophilia or the criminal shenanigans of the gay mafia among the clergy. I've seen enough of these scum in my time, believe me.

You're exactly right about the money part, by the way. Sadly.

[oremus]

This is a GAY problem - not a celibacy issue. DUH. Of course, the liberal media will never approach it from that (true) angle because that would conflict with their agenda to promote homosexuality as an "alternative lifestyle."

How many of you (heterosexual) guys out there, if finding yourself without a wife or sex partner for a while, would start looking to young or teenage boys to get your fix? When will people start THINKING for themselves, rather than letting the media tell you what to think - about the Catholic Church or anything else for that matter??? This is simply not logical.

As a TRUE Catholic who knows my faith, theologically and otherwise, listening to the moronic, ignorant, and ludicrous opinions and commentaries by the media on what the Church should do about this is enough to make me puke. These idiots don't know what the h*ll they're talking about, and are using this issue to simply promote and spread their religious bigotry.

And another thing - in most of these cases it's not even pedophilia. The majority of the cases involve teenage boys. Still horrible, but the word is being thrown around and overused to create more anger and rage. It's a fact that the incidence of this behavior among priests is no more than in the general population. Priests are human too and are capable of committing human sin just as much as the layperson. How priests get to the point of committing such crimes is another topic of its own.

This is the real root of the problem (article below), and YES IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AND ROOTED OUT OF THE CHURCH! As a Catholic who loves my faith I'm disgusted with this behavior, but it in NO WAY invalidates my faith or the Church itself (there will always be tares alongside the wheat). Priest: Gays Threaten Church

[Thud]

You have no sense of history. All you can see is hate.

This is about the abuse of power. The Catholic Church is real big on power.