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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do people expect when you limit your teachers to no marriage and celibacy?  Then, you put a bunch of vulnerable children in their care.

Its like asking a starving lion to look over lambs.[/quote]

Simply preposterous assertions.

To begin with, the vast, vast majority of teachers in Catholic facilities have always been women, and in the last fifty years mostly lay women who are free to marry and typically are married.

In any event, there is no evidence linking celibacy, particularly among women religious, to molestation of minors.

Celibacy obviously is not a factor in public schools, which are protected by sovereign immunity and unlimited public defense funds, and where the rate of abuse is estimated to be 100 times higher than that ever alleged against Catholic institutions.

The majority of alleged abusers are married men, and typically related to their victims. [/quote]

LOL.  You assumed that by poster using the word teachers she meant literal teachers in classrooms.  Shows your sexism. S

he meant it as priests/preachers in a broader context as ones who "teach" Christianity to their pulpit.  [/quote]

LOL I assumed nothing. Catholic clergy are called “clergy,” “clerics,” and more typically “deacons, priests and bishops.”  The only context in which the word “teachers” makes even vestigial sense is in the context of schools, which coincidentally are the only place one typically would find children gathered in a Catholic institution.

And nobody “teaches Christianity to their pulpit.”  Well, maybe some people fo, but the pulpit, being inanimate, is unlikely to learn much.

So pitiful “rebuttal,” and completely ignores the complete failure of the PP blaming alleged abuse on celibacy when that is an irrelevancy. [/quote]

Are you trying to argue that "clergy, clerics, deacons, priest, and bishops" do not engage in any form of teaching?
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Teacher:  someone whose job is to teach in a school or college

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/teacher[/quote]

You must be our limited reading comprehension person.  In your same link, it also includes, "a person who instructs or trains others".  [/quote].

And you must be our resident meanie[/quote]

Information is mean?  🧐[/quote]

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