[DB]

I think the "big" story is what the Church did about the problem when they found out what their individual Priests were doing. They protected their public image over the well being of the children instead. For that, above everything else, they deserve our condemnation (those responsible).

[Kenny Bunk]

"If one has a certain orientation this need not lead to active sexual practice, and whether it does or not depends on the development of inhibition of dispositions." According to Father Richard John Neuhaus, there have been priests, later canonized as saints, who would meet today's criteria as having a homosexual orientation. According to Neuhaus, the issue then is not the "nature of the temptations resisted, but the fidelity of the resistance."
It is under this theory that the Catholics thought it might be OK for homosexuals to enter the priesthood. I hope they have a plan "B."

[topher]

I think the "big" story is what the Church did about the problem when they found out what their individual Priests were doing. They protected their public image over the well being of the children instead. For that, above everything else, they deserve our condemnation (those responsible).

The same can be said of teachers or parents who do the same thing. I remember hearing the story of a step-father who raped his 13 year old daughter with several other men many, many times.

To say it just happens in the Catholic Church, is a lie. Many much smaller churches have many more incidents than the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church in America is the single largest denomination. The next largest denomination is "fallen away Catholics".