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To: tdadams
Was the Catholic Church not complicit in covering up the crime? Transferring the offending priests to one new diocese after another, in effect handing them a whole new crop of children to molest?

Yes.

Or it is more accurate to say: many key bishops were. These problems are handled at the diocesan level.

The real question is why so many men with arrested sexual development - nearly all of homosexual orientation, given that something like 94% of reported molestation cases are of adolescent boys - got into the priesthood in the first place. And how they were formed in the seminaries.

There are of course many perfectly chaste, fine same-sex oriented priests serving in the Church. But clearly this orientation poses a greater obstacle for priestly formation than does heterosexuality per se.

But then of course the Church has always held that homosexuality is "gravely disordered."

59 posted on 01/27/2004 8:18:49 PM PST by The Iguana
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To: The Iguana
Bump.

Thanks for the breather.
64 posted on 01/27/2004 8:28:32 PM PST by Barnacle ("It is as it was." JPII)
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