[Aunt Polgara]

I do hope this gives some context to the issues.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Long, but sobering and detailed article. Does not excuse the guilty either.

Which means it will NOT get any media attention, since that is not Shapiro’s intentions, nor the NYTimes intentions. It DOES break the morale of Trump’s Christian-Catholic base, which IS Shapiro’s and the the NYTimes’ intentions.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

This seems to be a continued denial of the horrific sexual abuse of young men/children by Roman Catholic priests...

... and enabled by the leadership of the organization.

It is being reported all over the US and World.

Just yesterday, Germany was revealed to have had over 3700 cases of Catholic sexual abuse.

German Catholic priests abused thousands of children

Better to own up or you won't get it fixed.

[wmileo]

"This is a lie. Anyone who actually reads the report knows it is a lie. Most were post-pubescent. This doesn’t make the molestation okay—the guilty should be imprisoned—but it is wrong to give the impression that we are talking about 5-year-olds when more typically they were 15-year-olds."

I have read this entire article. I also have great respect for Mr. Bill Donahue.

However, if priest is having intercourse with a post-pubescent, that this proves Homosexuality is misleading. Adults who have sex with post puberty minors of the same gender are not necessarily committing just an act of homosexuality. There is an abusive power play here which can't be ignored. To explain away this whole scandal to homosexual priests won't get us to the real problem.

Also showing up the government by claiming a truth:

'That Public Institutions, the media and Hollywood are even more guilty than the Roman Catholic Church,'

will not solve the problems the church itself is facing. Catholics send their children to Catholic Schools for a better education than the one they will receive from the Public School Systems. They expect more from the Roman Catholic Church.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It is not “debunked”.

I will agree that the Attorney General, likely in pursuit of the next step in his political career, lumped in some lightly substantiated cases in with the severe ones. But no one is denying that the severe ones actually occurred.

This article just indicates to me that the Church’s plan is to try and spin their way out of this mess.

Not gonna work this time.

[pepsi_junkie]

I’m sorry but splitting hairs over whether they were priests or brothers, or how 300 is a small number compared to all the priests in PA isn’t swaying me. Ongoing abuse, covered up and condoned at the highest levels, AFTER prior scandals were uncovered is not excusable. Saying it was “only” a couple of hundred if you make some big assumptions isn’t making me feel better about the church here.

[ConservativeMind]

“Over the past two years, .005 percent of the Catholic clergy have had a credible accusation made against him.”

Well, many men have had no accusations made public until they are, then actors, movie producers, and news presenters and producers suddenly have dozens each become public.

This is a bogus data point given.

[narses]

ping