[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".

[PFKEY]

I don't know if anyone is saying this only happends in the catholic church. The question at hand is that it has been going for a long time in the catholic church and the church has done little to nothing to stop it. The only thing that the church appears to have done is to cover up the problem.

[DB]

There are evil people all over. What people do when these evil ones are exposed is what defines them. Higher ups in the Church decided to protect their public image while returning the criminals back to the children to prey on them again.

How does one forgive that?