Pope rewards pedophile bshop with vacation retreat

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i believe the main point of that article is that pedophile doesn't equal gay for one...for another, these people are drawn to children. as someone posted above, it makes sense that the predominant victim of a priest is a boy, due to it being mostly young men who are altar servers in churches. of course, when you look at victims such as those in the irish orphanages, the victims were of both sexes, since both were accessible by the priests and nuns.

i would have to think that the priesthood would appeal to people who don't mature sexually-i just can't imagine that a man would willingly give up any hope of intimacy with a woman unless that just plain doesn't cross his mind at all.


the catholic church needs to once again catch up with the times. centuries ago, men were allowed to marry as priests. it was mainly a financial reason that the rules were changed, barring marriage, to begin with. it wasn't due to any mandate from heaven, or from some bible verse-it was money.


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the real shame is that the guy in the article in the beginning of this thread can't be charged because of the statute of limitations. he's a real slimeball, who does like most criminals-attempts to justify his horrible behavior.
dante, were he alive today, would definitely have to expand hell a circle or two.

I certainly agree pedophile does not equal gay but even when I was in grade school 70-77 there were altar girls.

IMO and this probably won't sit well, the catholic church for one reason or another following the depression attracted young gay men to its seminaries, who probably because of family shunning were unable to come out. They sought the church out because maybe they wouldn't get questioned about marriage but more importantly they made their families proud. Then mirroring society in general those with pedophile tendencies acted out and understandably boys were the target. I may be wrong and there may be a whole slew of catholic girls out there so ashamed they won't speak but I don't think so. I think unlike society in general most priests, at least when I was in school were gay though only a small minority (3-4 out of 150-200) were guilty and only one I would term a pedophile. Again admittedly this is a very small sample and my observations.

The men who board Taiwanese flights with brief cases of viagra know what sex they will order when they arrive and could have told you which most likely when they were their victims' age. And when pedophiles sport jewelry 'showing their colors' best parents, teachers, law enforcement and ideally kids know what those colors are.