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Incidentally, many Catholics aren't even all that disturbed by what is happening with these sex abuse cases

I agree. A visiting Priest advised that we pray for those involved in the current scandal. I was taken aback, since I was aware (unavoidable, since it was on the front page of every paper for several days), but had not followed the news closely.

I made the decision several years ago to search for a Priest who followed and taught the traditional beliefs of the Church. I looked long and hard, but managed to find such a man 30 miles from home. My family and I drive 60 miles round trip every week to attend Mass celebrated by him.

The devout Priests far outnumber the perverts. I view the scandal as something happening outside my Church -- it has nothing to do with me, because I made the conscious decision to avoid "Catholic" Churches that deemed themselves progressive. Those progressive Churches do not follow my Faith, and I do not follow them.

My family and I drive 60 miles round trip every week to attend Mass celebrated by him.

God bless you and your family. Here in the Chicago area people are making similar lengthy round-trips to one of the most exciting faith communities in the nation, the Parish Church of Saint John Cantius, with its long-overdue mission: Restoring the Sacred.

Please stop by if ever you're in the 'hood.

Saint John Cantius Parish Church, Chicago, IL

Most Catholics I've talked to will at best condemn the abuse while at the same time make excuses for the heirarchy and at worst scream to the top of their lungs that the allegations are all a fraud(this one man I know says that it's a masonic conspiracy to destroy the church, he also says that the Spanish Inquisition was a great thing and that Mussolini was the defender of Christian Civilization. He even has a portrait of Mussolini in his den next to his picture of the Virgin Mary.)