NY Priest "Apologizes" for Saying Children are Often the "Seducer"

[AngryOldDem]

39. The Church's motivations and intentions in regard to molesting priests

Has been widespread knowledge for years. It has knowingly covered up crimes involving adults and kids by shuffling priests from diocese to diocese, offering financial settlements in turn for no further legal action, intimidation families with the threat of court action, etc. etc. There is a report called the Doyle-Peterson Report. Read it and learn. It spells out pretty well the lengths the Church has gone to to cover this up.

How many priests, pray tell, have been defrocked -- LET ALONE PROSECUTED -- for sexual abuse of minors? The Church has cracked down harder on "dissident" nuns than it has against men who have hurt children. There is still a belief within the Church that the blame for ALL of this lies with homosexuality, and there is still a movement to ban gays from entering the priesthood, when it has been determined over and over again that homosexuality has NOTHING to do with this.

But that said, it is AGAIN the Church's foot-dragging for decades on this which has caused the most damage. What they are doing in terms of "reform" -- is too little, too late.

I take great offense at what you term as my "naivete." Do you know personally any victims of this abuse? I have. I know what they have gone through, and that all that most of them wanted from the Church was a **simple apology.** The Church won't even give them that, hence their anger. And mine.

If you want to defend this sick man and his sick institution, then go for it. I've **seen** the damage they have done.