Do you know why so many priests are pedophiles?

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34. True. They may be believers AND pedophiles

and hope that "dedicating their lives to God" will somehow cure them of their urges, which at least some know to be abhorrent. When prayer and dedication to the Church doesn't cure them, many nonetheless find themselves in a position of power over and access to children, with the results we've seen and which are now becoming more and more clear. Who knows, some may even think it's "God's will" that these children are "given to them" as either temptation or solace, as sick as that may sound.

As I've posted before on these threads, another problem with celibacy, aside from the obvious denial of human nature, is that, like prohibition, it fosters a climate of secrecy and skirting the "law." I've heard that something like half of all priests enter into sexual relations at some point in their lives in the Church--and is this at all surprising? Many if not most of these relationships are with consenting adults, but they are nonetheless violations of Church strictures and grounds for punishment and even expulsion from the clergy. The resulting "corporate culture" thus includes a component of "if you keep quiet about my lapse, I'll keep quiet about yours." Not exactly conducive to the protection of abuse survivors, rather it accrues to the benefit of abusers.

Some maybe be faking, most probably aren't. Just as many abusive therapists probably actually believe having sex with their patients is somehow therapeutic, and that they are ethical practitioners helping their patients.