Why, no, because that reference was a response to another post.
What I find unsettling -- no, pitiful is the word -- is how people, when reminded of a truth that they'd rather not face, can muster no response other than a personal attack.
I find it unsettling that some people are completely unable to reconcile themselves to truth of the fallibility of the men in the Church. Experience has taught me that these same people cannot face their own shortcomings, and cannot be reasoned with, and I find it disappointing that there are so many of them in the Church; esp when the cardinal virtue is humility -- it is very disappointing to find it so thoroughly absent.
“people, when reminded of a truth that they’d rather not face”
How about people who are annoyed at yet another repetition of a falsehood?
The number of child molesters among priests was and is very, very small. Most of the offenders were ordinary, garden variety sodomites who are interested in the post-pubescent, not children.
I know what you were responding to, and it doesn’t make your comment any less a “turd in the punchbowl.”
Embroidering your faux pas with some inane “fallibility of men” sermon to find fault with your critics only serves to justify the “personal attacks” you’ve received.
I read your first post and was disgusted.
I read your further posts and became increasingly angry.
And then I realized that the first post was as intolerant as the actions and words of those protesters and was meant to do the same thing, i.e. silence the truth.
And so, I have decided to do what this worthy priest was doing and pray for you.