Also, I was using Muddy's numbers. he claimed that there were 4400 pedophile priests out of 110,000 priests. (The actual number of US Catholic Priests is currently 41,000, and dropping like a stone.)
Yeah, well, it's hard work being a priest and not much fun if you can't even molest little boys any longer!! Darn, might as well go to work for the Boy Scouts.
Reminds me of a joke.
A troop of boy scouts is on a boat with a lawyer and a priest. The boat starts sinking and the scout leaders says, "Save the children".
The Lawyer says, "Screw them!"
The Priest says, "Do you think we have time?"
Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Anyway, on a more serious note, the real big change was back in oldy-day Catholicism before you even said words like "homosexual" and "Lesbian" out loud, if you were of that sexual orientation and couldn't be bullied into a sham marriage, then the place for you was the Holy Orders. Once it became acceptable to be gay, the number of priests and nuns and Christian brothers all started to drop.
One theory I've heard about why the Catholic Church has such a problem here is that they essentially arrest sexual development. Think about it, when you were 14, you were attracted to other 14 year olds. A 30 year old was an "old lady". And when you were 30, you were attracted to 30 year olds and you see 14 year olds as children.
So the problem here is that the Church gets these kids when they are just hitting puberty, arresting their sexual development, and in sexual maturity, you have guys who are still 14 years old even into their 30's.
Not saying I entirely agree, but I think that this theory is interesting, at the very least.
