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``I don't think this is anything of comparable proportions,'' he said. ``I don't think there's any great crisis in the U.S . . . It's really practically no news. To the extent it's a crisis, it's created by the news media. I suppose every individual case is terrible but it is not something peculiar to the Catholic church.''

Uh-oh. This isn't the East/West schism or the Protestant revolution, but it's much more than "practically no news."

BC's Pope called Dulles' observation ``stunning'' and said it could reflect John Paul's feelings, given the two share similar views.

I have to agree. The scandal is the cover-up. And it's an institution-wide cover-up which is what makes the scandal truly stunning.

It took several decades to wreck the American seminaries and universities. I suspect it will take decades of effort to undo the damage, and then only if there is the will to do it. Except for the current Pope, I don't see many bishops with the stomach for purging the ranks of homosexuals and modernist clergy.

`I don't think this is anything of comparable proportions,'' he said. ``I don't think there's any great crisis in the U.S . . . It's really practically no news. To the extent it's a crisis, it's created by the news media. I suppose every individual case is terrible but it is not something peculiar to the Catholic church.''

This is pretty much exactly what Fr. Benedict Groeschel said on Fox News last night.

I love Fr. Groeschel with all my heart, but I near died when he said it -- a priest who loves the Church and his priesthood but is clearly in denial.

I have to agree. The scandal is the cover-up. And it's an institution-wide cover-up which is what makes the scandal truly stunning.

I also agree. Dulles is either out of touch with what's really going on, or he's in denial.

He said,

I suppose every individual case is terrible...

I SUPPOSE???!!!! I KNOW is more like it. Nothing like making lite of the problem.

...but it is not something peculiar to the Catholic church.

So What! It shouldn't be happening in the Church, especially to the degree that it is.

It is time to clean house of the actively homosexual clergy...and there's a bunch of them.