[Courdeleon02]

I'm not joking. This problem of molesting teenage boys has been with the church ever since celibacy became a requirement. Only today is the truth coming out. It has gone on for centuries but was covered up because in the past no one would believe that a priest could do such a thing. If you spoke up and made a charge you would be persecuted, called a liar and discredited. The power of the church would come down on you like a hammer.Having gone to Catholic Schools all my life I can state that a majority of priests were odd balls and feminized.They are not mature men.

[Aquinasfan]

This problem of molesting teenage boys has been with the church ever since celibacy became a requirement. Only today is the truth coming out. It has gone on for centuries but was covered up because in the past no one would believe that a priest could do such a thing.

How did you come upon this information? Are you omniscient?

If "no one would believe that a priest could do such a thing," why were priests separated from confessors by a screen?

[maryz]

Having gone to Catholic Schools all my life

All your life, huh? I went to Catholic school for 12 years, and I only knew a handful of priests in all that time. (Actually, most of them were fine. A couple I didn't much like, but never heard a breath of rumor about.)

But I suppose if you've gone to Catholic schools for what? 30, 40, 50 years?, you must know thousands of priests and so are perfectly competent to generalize.