Anonymous wrote:The rate of offending among priests is shaking out at roughly 2.5%. The last ten years were the best reporting environment that's ever existed to root out a group of offenders.

The rate in public school is higher.

Really, cite please. I don't recall one in 30 teachers turning out to be pedophiles.

The rate of offending among priests is shaking out at roughly 2.5%. The last ten years were the best reporting environment that's ever existed to root out a group of offenders.

The rate in public school is higher.

Anonymous wrote:The errors in the title of this post hurt my eyes.

It is pretty BLATENT.

Which, if you're feeling thick, was another really excellent misspell on another title.

The Catholic Church has so damaged what little credibility it once had for me with this whole mess. I'm an old school Protestant, though, so my beef with that church goes back a couple hundred years.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with the fact that the title hurts the eyes. I cannot even engage in the conversation because the OP seems crazy.

OPs title is pretty damn accurate. I didn't know this board had hopeless apologists for pedophiles.

Agree with the fact that the title hurts the eyes. I cannot even engage in the conversation because the OP seems crazy.

Anonymous wrote:In fairness to the church, They said in recent months his cognitive abilities have been declining. No one is defending his words.

no excuse - If he thinks this way now that his filter is quickly fading, he has ALWAYS believed this.

a comment from the Post's article, which makes me ill:

areyousaying
8/31/2012 12:28 PM EDT
Here you have it again. Look the other way (or in this case, maybe a participating) Catholic demonizing the victims.

So, at 14, I "seduced" the perverted "Prince of Christ" who befriended me at my friend's CYO, groomed me with gifts and attention that my parents could not provide, and left me torn and bleeding in a filthy motel room to walk home throwing my semen and blood stained BVD's in a dumpster so no one would find out?

I have long forgiven the priest who did this to me, but everytime I hear this kind of abomination to the laws of man and god from this vile church, it opens the wounds again.

This is a sick, sick, man who represents "Christ's Chruch" so well. Catholic parents should, at the very minimun, know the signs of grooming:

http://suite101.com/article/how-pedophiles-groom-victims-a49648

Unless, of course, they hold their commonly shared belief that this all a part of growing up Catholic.

Anonymous wrote:The interview was only removed from the Catholic Register web site after it went viral. "In all fairness to the church," there was no problem publishing the interview until the non religious press started to howl and scream

They said they published it without editorial review. It was an error of omission not one of deliberate action.

Anonymous wrote:where would DCUM's be without the resident anal retentive English Spelling monitor

This is actually the first time I've posted about a spelling error. So I'm not the one you're referring to. I usually keep it to myself because I often make errors when typing too fast or with autocorrect. But this was no autocorrect error and it is in all caps so it is hard not to take note.

The interview was only removed from the Catholic Register web site after it went viral. "In all fairness to the church," there was no problem publishing the interview until the non religious press started to howl and scream

Anonymous wrote:The errors in the title of this post hurt my eyes.

+1

where would DCUM's be without the resident anal retentive English Spelling monitor

The errors in the title of this post hurt my eyes.

In fairness to the church, They said in recent months his cognitive abilities have been declining. No one is defending his words.

Gross.

Typical pedophile thinking.. The child seduced me. First time ofteners shouldn't be punished... and this Priest was respected by leading Bishops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/nyregion/in-interview-the-rev-benedict-groeschel-says-abuse-victims-can-be-seducers.html0