Catholic Church Blames Hippies for Pedophile Priests

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I think the Catholic church needs to work on their hiring standards, putting it mildly.

Obviously its super easy to find out who is a pedo and who isn't:
Just use this patented method

How about when the Priests take their vows they are neutered...

They are supposed to be celibate anyways.

I thought you were a good Christian? Are you sure you aren't Orwell?

How about when the Priests take their vows they are neutered...

They are supposed to be celibate anyways.

Since you can abuse with more than a penis... how bout we cut off hands and remove tongues as well....?

Remember I am a Methodist, and an offshoot of the Protestants that split away from the Catholic church centuries ago.

I wasn't aware of that actually (your denomination)
However there are Protestant priests also responsible for some of this funny business

How about when the Priests take their vows they are neutered...

They are supposed to be celibate anyways.

And there are atheists that are pedophiles too.

As far as I know Protestant priests/pastors/etc. would be removed from their position and turned over to the authorities.

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Excuse me, but I for one am getting fed up with the Catholic Priesthood making Christians in general look bad.

All I'm saying, is that blaming Catholicism exclusively is erroneous, it is a systemic problem with Christian clergy in general. The big difference is the Roman Catholics, naturally, have the Vatican to throw money at legal cases, thus either silencing them or making them really well known (unintentionally)

Some apologists have tried to argue that Catholic priests are no more prone to child sexual abuse than those of other denominations or in secular caring professions. This defense is not convincing. The best estimates for abuse among Protestant clergy is 2 to 3 percent, which is only one third that of their Catholic counterparts. [c] [29] We will take a closer look at why the Catholic Church seems more susceptible to this culture of abuse in the section below.

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The Causes: The Church Implicated
Conservative Catholics have been quick to blame the prevalence of homosexuality in the priesthood for the current scandal.[57] Indeed recent estimates put the number of homosexual priests around 20%. [58] For the conservative, the solution is neat, for it suggests that somehow it is not the Church that is at fault but abberant priests who probably have no right to be in the priesthood anyway!
Inviting as the solution seems to be, it seems mistaken. There is no credible research that links the sexual abuse of children with homosexuality. As we can see from the examples above, girls and well as boys were molested. Indeed men who molest little boys are more likely to be heterosexual than homosexual in their adult involvements. Richard Sipe, a psychiatrist, summarized it succinctly, "Child sexual abuse has as much to do with homosexuality as rape has to do with heterosexuality." [59]

Two of the main causes of this widespread systemic problem of child sexual abuse are the Church culture of celibacy and the monolithic authoritarian structure of the church.

Celibacy was originally introduced in the Church during the end of the third century (or the beginning of the fourth). It did not become widely enforced until Pope Callistus II called the First Lateran Council in 1123 where he declared all clerical marriages invalid. However continued reiteration of this rule through later councils showed that the enforcements were by no means fully successful. It was only during the Council of Trent in 1563 that celibacy became an absolute rule. [60]

Note that is is not celibacy per se that causes the sexual abuse of children. It is the celibate culture, one in which sex is renounced, that forms an attraction to people already struggling with sexual issues. True pedophiles tend to develop their inclination early and contrary to what many may believe, many of them feel ashamed of such feelings and fight to contain and, in many cases, to repress it completely. If the person happens to be a Catholic male and religious, the celibacy of the priesthood with its promise of grace from God and the provision of the "gift" of celibacy seems just the antedote for his predeliction. Dr. John Morney, a reknowned authority on human sexuality wrote: "These future priests become seminarians partly in the belief that they will, through religion, gain control over the very sexual desire that they resist or fight against". [61]

I'm not suggesting that other denominations are equal in abuse, but I think it is worthwhile to note that they are not innocent either

Catholics handle it much worse than other denominations, where generally pedophile/pederast figures are forced to resign if found out by higher ups. The fact that the Catholic Church is such a centralized institution and has ordered fellow Church administrators to not report the abuse to authorities is just awful. Pederast/Pedophile Priests have found sanctuary in the Vatican State.

It is a particularly Catholic problem.