[MarkBsnr]

Got any of this stuff highlighting Protestant ministers? How about public school teachers?

I kinda agree; but here's the point. We have to have a clean house first. We are sinners, yet we have to be able to handle the sins and ensure that they are not institutionalized. We want no Jimmy Swaggarts or Ted Haggards in the Church.

[magisterium]

Agreed. I only wanted to point-out the single-minded expose of Catholics here, as if only Catholics have this problem. That we need to have our own house in swept and in order is a given. Recent measures undertaken by the Church - even if in an often tardy fashion - are meant to find true and just remedies for the sins of the past.

That some folks seem to want to dredge up nothing but muck, when remedial measures are more and more in operation, says more about them than the Church scandal they so eagerly want to keep in the headlines.

[Poe White Trash]

We want no Jimmy Swaggarts or Ted Haggards in the Church.

Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard?

If it had only been a matter of RC priests in Ireland soliciting adult prostitutes and taking illegal drugs, I doubt there would have been something like a Murphy Commission as a response.

What Swaggart and Haggard did was immoral and reprehensible. What the Murphy Commission report claims occurred in Ireland is at least an order of magnitude worse.