[a little elbow grease]

"A study commissioned by the German Bishops Conference and published last year found that more than 3,600 children were sexually abused by Catholic clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014." ---

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After watching the movie, "Spotlight", that sounds like a rather surprisingly low number (60 a year).

And how did they ascertain this number of abused?

[BenLurkin]

“The real scandal is that the Catholic church hasn’t distinguished itself from the rest of society.”

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s the cover-up that is the big problem. THAT is a church problem, not a society problem. And he’s participating in the cover-up by attempting this bit of misdirection.

[JudyinCanada]

Years and years ago it was known that the seminaries for priests were FULL of homosexuals. It had to come to fruition.

There are circumstances in the catholic church that made for this perfect storm. Priests not being allowed to marry starts it off. This is not to say that these “men” would not be assaulting boys if they were allowed to marry - I don’t think that’s the case at all.

What this policy did was open them up to homosexuals wanting to become priests. If you were a young homosexual man (especially in Europe, years back) and you did NOT want people to know, what is the perfect out? Join the priesthood. If you do that, you don’t have to explain the lack of interest in women, you get admiration and respect over the moon and back, you have trust from parents beyond reason and access to boys who look up to you and trust you. Plus you get paid to do it. If nobody finds out, you’ve got yourself a nice little perverted gig going.

Add to this the fact that the no marry policy makes the church desperate to find priests as most men want to marry, and you have the perfect disaster waiting to happen. The church knew full well they were bringing in a bunch of homosexuals - but they decided to go with the “if they don’t act on it, they’re welcome in the priesthood” approach.

Now, the perverts in the protestant church, I have no explanation for other than Satan working hard the church.

[laweeks]

HE’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, SO WHY DID THE CHURCH ALLOW SO MANY OF THEM TO ENTER AND STAY IN THE PRIESTHOOD?

[SaxxonWoods]

Hey, the Pope says not to judge...

[Nicojones]

And in other news, water is the reason for wetness. Of course he’s right and the fact that so many can’t see the obvious is scary

[Spok]

Gay or straight, shouldn’t priests observe their vow of celibacy? Or are they saying that the impulse to engage in homosexual behavior is stronger than their devotion to their faith?

[IronJack]

Homosexuality is a sin. A sin is nothing without a sinner.

[allendale]

Can’t imagine that Cardinal Brandmuller is very popular with “Pope” Francis. BTW anyone else notice the similarities between this pope and Captain Queeg. Wonder if Francis has a couple of ball bearings in his pocket.

[CincyRichieRich]

Should have been a litmus test against gays in clergy...but then lying is ok if you are gay, especially since the bible isn’t even used in many cases.

[CincyRichieRich]

Satan-in-chief is this current pope.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Homosexuality is to blame for sexual abuse, not Catholic church, claims German cardinal

I don't know if homosexuality is to blame for sexual abuse (male pedophiles go after little girls, and there's at least one story per week about adult female schoolteachers sexually abusing boys) - but it would be interesting to see a real study on what percentage of sexual abuse is to blame for homosexuality - the anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that a lot of male gays were abused as boys. Of course, homosexual rights groups would punish any serious attempt to study this topic, since they are busy pushing the narrative that all gays are born that way.

As for the Catholic church - form any organization or society which prohibits normal sexual interactions between men and women, and you're going to attract and foster people who are not interested in normal sexual interactions between men and women, but are interested in abnormal sexual interactions.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Roman Catholic Church's policy of "no married priests" logically results in most "recruits" being homosexuals.And male homosexuals prey upon young boys.

So while it could be said that the Church isn't directly,knowingly,responsible it is responsible indirectly.

[MrEdd]

The two factors are not in any way mutually exclusive.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[vpintheak]

I agree. But the Catholic Church actively covered it up.
So....

[Salman]

Of course the "homosexuals" in question were all Roman Catholic priests and the hierarchy covered for them.

The only thing new in modern times is people talking openly about it.

[aquila48]

Nail on the head! However the church did turn a blind eye to it.

[PeterPrinciple]

“The real scandal is that the Catholic church hasn’t distinguished itself from the rest of society.”

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He is going to get strung up for that statement. Next assignment for him is China for reeducation. True of most churches.

[PeterPrinciple]

claimed it is “statistically proven” that there is a link between homosexuality and abuse.

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truth (such obvious truth) spoken.