[Carpe Cerevisi]

I'm not justifying ANYTHING illegal or wrong. Just trying to put things into perspective.

[Cronos]

yes, we all think that the evil scum ex-priests who actually did these crimes should be tossed in prison with the worst inmates -- let them know that the pain they get now will be nothing compared to the pain they will get in hell where they will burn in the hottest fires of hell reserved for shepherds of Christ who abuse their position

Since the 90s, any priest who gets even the smallest whiff of suspicion gets suspended (which can be overkill but is needed now) and if proven is tossed out on the street (where he belongs)

yet the perspective that only 0.53% of priests have been convicted, that only 2-3% have even been accused is forgotten. yes, 2-3% being accused is too high, yes, 0.53% convicted is too high, but why blame the 99.47% of all priests for the sins of these few?

Also, I note that the majority of cases were in the liberal hellholes of Philly and Chicago -- hellholes for sham-priests too it seems.

Curses on the false priests but pity and sympathy for the truly holy priests maligned by all for the sins of 0.53%

[count-your-change]

Donahue is a bit more than disingenuous in his arguments when he says,

“Perhaps no reform made in Dallas has proven to be more intrinsically dangerous than demands for “zero tolerance.”

Made by WHOM in Dallas? It was the U.S. bishops that passed the “zero tolerance” standard for priests and leaving the enabling bishops in place.

Tossing out a priest that patted a fanny fifty years ago won't “cure” anything when the compliance “audits” can give a clean bill of health to a diocese even as the diocesan bishop enters a plea bargain for failing to report sexual abuse of minors.