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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever the Catholic Church has done to improve in this area, they have only done because they were caught.  [/quote]

Outside forces certainly had an impact; the fact remains that the Catholic Church is at the forefront in the handling of abuse claims today.

None of this is about sex abuse anyway. If it were, we’d be having lots of discussion about the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia; about whether the changes wrought by the Second Vatican Council resulted in sufficient heterosexual/celibacy-observing priests leaving their vocations that homosexual and non-celibates began to dominate; about whether this led to the rise of homosexual and/or non-celibate administrators inclined to protect fellow miscreants; whether homosexual orientation is associated with sexual abuse, etc., etc., etc.  [b]People who feel guilty about participating in behaviors the Church says are wrong are anxious to destroy the moral authority they nonetheless grant it, in an effort to feel better about themselves. That only happens when people have a deep internal conflict about their own actions.[/b] I eat pork. I’m not Jewish or Muslim and I feel no need at all to attack those faiths for prohibiting pork to their adherents. [/quote]

Wow.  Well said. [/quote]

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