Police: Pennsylvania priest caught with pantless 15-year-old on college campus

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7. Like I said above, to change the power structure is to radically change the church.

And the powers-that-be have no interest in putting their jobs and benefits in jeopardy.

We also have to consider the possibility that there is something fundamental to Catholic church doctrine that necessitates the enlistment of pedophiles. That there is some common characteristic between the type of men called upon by church doctrine and the type of men who rape children. That's not a very comfortable thing to consider. But, considering the sheer number of cases, it is a very real possibility.

I happen to think this has a lot to do with the church's abjectification of sexuality in general. Which creates an environment conducive to sexual repression and, ultimately, as Foucault held, an explosion of sexuality between the receivers and providers of confession.

Much of modern sexuality is born of this obsession between dirtiness and confession. So it is of little wonder that the confession itself becomes eroticized. Especially by people who already have issues with the role of power in their sexuality.

What I'm saying, again, is that allowing priests to get married and women to become priests will not change the issue of pedophilia. Because agreeing with such an argument suggests that otherwise normal men, when sexually repressed, start having sex with children. That's simply not the case. If you have pedophiles as priests, offering them the chance to marry is a pointless endeavor.