If CBS is interested in reporting the actual facts of the sex abuse "crisis" they should investigate how the sodomy problem in the Church got started to begin with. Conservative Catholics have been complaining about this FOR YEARS. Somehow CBS missed this story. How could that be possible? How did CBS miss the fact that conservative Catholics have complained about the sodomy problem in AmChurch for years?
It is clear to me, but I think CBS should have been a little more careful to make the distinction and clarify it for readers who can't make the distinction because they aren't familiar with church practices and laws. In other words, CBS wanted to lay it out there and hope some more s*** hits the fan. I was interested in the document and was glad it got on the net in translated form. Somebody obviously leaked it imo.
If CBS is interested in reporting the actual facts of the sex abuse "crisis" they should investigate how the sodomy problem in the Church got started to begin with
That's the real no no and I'm not completely satisfied with most of the explanations I've read. It may have other explanations which haven't been explored fully enough yet. It is most likely that the church needs so many priests now that they have just cut corners in order to fill the slots and a few got in and encouraged others to join the club because it's a good life for some.
There are other measures without giving up celibacy that the church might take to ease the supposed manpower shortage. Daily masses could be a lot larger in a central location in all but the small towns to ease the workload, but there is probably something wrong with that idea. Lots of priests seem to be shuffling papers which could be handled by laity.