http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/w...f-inappropriate-acts.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
What is the Catholic Hierarchy resigning for? How bad is it really? Was the child molestation cases only the tip of the iceberg?
My guess is, pretty bad.
Here's the problem,
"Help Wanted. Job requires you to spend a lot of time with children. Must have no sexual interest in adult women."
Now, in my generation of Catholics, the "Holy Orders" were for people who were not good fits for marriage due to their sexuality. Most of the nuns were pretty obviously lesbians and most of the priests were gay. Which means you have an entire heirarchy that is pretty much trying to beat down its sexuality with religion.
Which means that if you are spending your life in sexual confusion, you aren't going to see that Father McCreepy spending all that time with teenage boys being as weird as most people would.
The other part of the problem is that now that it's more acceptable to be gay, all they have left are the pedophiles. There are less than 41,000 priests in the US. Most of them are elderly.
Final component, and this is what totally ******* infuriates me, even though I stopped being a practicing Catholic decades ago. Whenever this happens, the talk is "how will this effect the image of the church".
With all due respect to the OP, I'm less concerned about the fact that there is a scandal and more concerned with the fact that children were abused and it was covered up.
