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Thousands of children have been at the mercy of those who were supposed to protect them and they failed their parishoners and God miserably.

The problem is that when you have a billion catholics, some are sinners.

If you notice, most of the "scandals" are twenty years old. There are 40 000 priests now, but if you count the number who have served over the last 20-30 years, the number goes above 100 000. If one percent are pedophiles, you get 1000 pedophiles. I am not counting sex with consenting teens, which is a major sin, but is common in not only clergy but in doctors, of course you get a higher number.

Now, back in the 1970's, such cases were treated as a sin, which can be forgiven, and as a psychological failing, which could be treated.

Nowadays, as a reaction to all the cases, the public has gotten angry.

So the Church is rightly censored.

But you notice at the same time, the Supreme court allows child pornography, and young children are being indoctrinated that promiscuous sex is normal, and gay sex should be celbrated.

But in the last ten years, the Catholic church is reviving, i.e. going back to their Christian roots. There is a real danger of it becoming the enemy of political correctness.

Voila: pedophile scandals, mostly from the time when weak bishops allowed weakening of the sexual morality and weakening of screening of practicing gays from seminaries. (not to mention those like Mahoney weakening the doctrinal beliefs of the church)

We need prayer at this time that the scandals are repented for. Alas, too many bishops are embroiled in politics.

However, the church will survive.

Well the truth of the matter is that we are ALL sinners.. what I find interesting is that by criticizing those who have failed then it is an attack on the church as a whole. I am not saying that at all. But by you saying that this all happened YEARS ago.. then you just brush it under the rug. The problem isn't as much the abuse but the Bishops hiding it.. with full knowledge of what was happening. THAT is the problem. People fail .. we all do.. priests are just men.. but when they DO fail and the very ones entrusted to oversee the Diocese cover it up. That is a HUGE problem.

But you notice at the same time, the Supreme court allows child pornography, and young children are being indoctrinated that promiscuous sex is normal, and gay sex should be celbrated.

Yes, and the news media and the entertainment culture are the biggest child abusers of all because while they abhore bad priests they preach the doctrine of anything goes as far as sex and morals. In this secualr world they teach that immoral behavior,(if it is politically correct) is not immoral unless they say it is.