Your polemics are interesting. You word your sentence to imply that a whole generation of priests needed correcting and then say it was just a tiny subset. That subset is definitely being corrected now (just ask those many priests who are in jail or worse) and dioceses are paying out their ears and letting themselves be raked by litigation (probably correct in doing so, but I’m no insider). The situation is not being excused and those clergy still living are being corrected as far as I can see.
In response to your earlier comment - in no way did I basically say one should be ashamed of scripture. I said you should be ashamed of yourself and you are not Scripture. Incidentally (I’m not sure if you’ve ever taken a logic course) you posited yourself as being incapable of error in interpreting scripture. Habemus papam!
Do not be surprised when the scandal spreads to Italy then.
The Bible is clear on what should have happened to the priests who engaged in this behavour, the Bible was not followed, and the results are obvious for all who would see them.
There is a Seminary in Austria (St Polten’s) that apparently trained or allowed some awful behavour, and yet no mention is made of it:
“The date on the door of the Roman Catholic seminary in this Austrian provincial capital is 1455, when it was founded by Franciscans, but that image of hoary old age has not protected St. Pölten from disclosures of sexual misbehavior that have set off a major scandal in this country.
It started early in the week when the Austrian weekly newsmagazine Profil published photographs of the rector and deputy rector of the seminary, the main school for future priests in this area just west of Vienna, in which they appeared to be kissing and fondling seminary students.
The publication of the photographs came some months after thousands of images, apparently downloaded from child pornography Web sites, appeared on seminary computers, prompting a police investigation.”
St Polten’s is a long standing Seminary, how this was allowed to happen is beyond me, perhaps you know the answer?