We can’t whitewash this. THOUSANDS of priests in the US were involved in this and Lord knows how many victims.
This is a terrible stain on our Church. In my archdiocese alone (L.A.) the Church was forced sign over a $660 billion settlement which will impact us for decades.
These priests are supposed to be celibate and holy. The Church is supposed to be at a higher level and held to higher standards than other institutions.
This pedophile/homosexual priest scandal is beyond revulsion. Purely evil.
As an aside: I learned a few years ago that the priest who married my wife and I was defrocked by the Church because he was romantically involved with an adult woman. Imagine if he was caught molesting altar boys...the Church would have simply transferred him to another parish like they did with so many others.
thousands of priests?
You need to quit listening to CNN so much. Try supporting the 98% of the priests who have never committed any type of sexual abuse. The media wants everyone to think that all Catholic priests are sexual predators. Like I say statistically speaking there are more cases in the protestant faiths and Jewish faith than Catholics. And that’s fact. But the ambulance chasing lawyers know where the money is - the Catholic Church. And the vast majority of these cases are 25 to 40 years old. Most of the priests long dead.