[ALPAPilot]

while research shows that most US victims were teenage boys, that is thought to be because this was the group to which priests had most access. "The vast majority of child abuse [against] both male and female is carried out by men who are heterosexual, and many of whom are married," notes Ms Smith.

So most of the sexual abuse of teenage boys is carried out by heterosexual males??????????

[Tax-chick]

Sure, because you know priests don’t ever meet any adult women, so even if they were straight, they’d have to do teenage boys. (/s)

[Campion]

No, that sentence is talking about sexual abuse in general. Most of the abuse by priests (at least in the US) was against teenage boys.

[SaintDismas]

They just can’t wrap their heads around the fact that this abuse of teenage BOYS by priests is a homosexual predator problem. They will twist like pretzels to sweep this FACT under the rug. Astonishing isn’t it?

The way this statement that you’ve highlighted reads by the moron Ms. Smith is that these “priests” are one big throbbing purple ready to do whatever to anybody, anything.

I hate to be so explicit, but c’mon you BBCers, say what the hell you mean. On second thought, they know what they want to say, they know what the hell is going on, they are the ones trying to cover up the truth.

[VidMihi]

John O is correct. There is no Catholic sex scandal. There is (or rather was) a homosexual sex scandal within the Catholic priesthood. Let’s all learn a new word - ephebophilia — sex with post-pubescent young people, almost always males — priests are rarely guilty of pedophilia except in the subset - pedophilia - Which may point to a dominant “gay subculture“ in the celibate Catholic Priesthood, which just might be a good argument for the return to active ministry of heterosexual married priests.

Would there were more practical discussion on how to begin the solution of the "gay clergy" problem.

[RobbyS]

Nonsense. Back in the day priests who wanted sex turned to woman. And there were always women available. A priest at my small EastTexas parish was suddenly transferred because of indiscretion concerning an attractive widow woman. Later the priest who succeeded him was discussing the problem with my Dad. He was telling about a handsome young priest who was assigned to his parish. The local women flocked around him like a movie star. And he thought it was his elegant sermons that attracted them!