[Servant of the Cross]

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ... Winston Churchill

The entirety of the sordid mess of the sex abuse scandal strikes me as the exact opposite of Winston Churchill's famous quote. The Catholic Church (the selected 'poster boy' for the MSM mob attack, which also pretends this is not the consequence of the deviance of homosexuality) and its 'so many' faithful adherents are demonized by the inexcusable actions of 'so few'.

[Mach9]

Couldn’t be truer. Vatican II itself, we Catholics are required to believe, accomplished good. But once those windows were open, a lot more than fresh air rushed in; and far too many Catholics fail to understand that the Council spoke AGAINST the “fresh” ideas that still infect us all.

[ontap]

Homosexuality is the only cause of sexual abuse of children!

[cherry]

its all about the money....just follow the money trail....lawyers need to go after big entities to rake in the big bucks....they know they have it in the Catholic Church....

and the Catholic church is so vulnerable because its against abortion and its aganist homosexual marriage...officially....

plus its just so in vogue to attack the Catholic church.....

[VidMihi]

Much of what has been said is true, it seems to me.
Celibacy in itself is not the problem, however the absence of some married priests, who if nothing else could be watchdogs as to the goings on of the clergy leads to a mainly homosexual clergy and the gay culture which currently dominates the priesthood. While it is true that pedophilia — sex with children — does not appear to be linked to sexual orientation, it is also true that very very few priests are strictly pedophiles.

HOWEVER the fact that, during the recent decades of scandal, high rates of ephebophilia — sex with post-pubescent young people, almost always males — does point to a “gay subculture” in the “celibate” Catholic priesthood.

Returning some married priests to active ministry would begin a solution to the problem.

[Servant of the Cross]

ping to George Weigel article. How naive for me to think that the "Long Lent" was over. This current media onslaught/attack on the Church is a "re-do" of 2002 all over again, as if no reforms have occurred at all?!

IMO, it is payback for the Bishops standing up on 0bamacare over abortion and its reforms to curtail homosexuals in the priesthood. Two big no-no's to the secular world.

[NYer]

The case of a married Wilmington, Dela., pediatrician charged with 471 counts of sexual abuse in February has nothing to do with celibacy.

A married with children, local area rabbi, was recently arrested for sexually molesting children. Where's the outcry?

Loudonville rabbi accused of sex abuse

[NYer]

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