> dear oh dear >
> > how anyone can support it is beyond me > I just saw this and must comment. Get off your high horse! No one, and I mean no one, supports the criminal behavior of priests and the efforts of those in the Church hierarchy to cover up those crimes. Geez. The Church is trying to make amends. They've paid tens of millions of dollars in legal awards to victims in the US alone. And priests have been jailed and defrocked for their crimes. There was even one that was killed in prison a few years ago. As noted in the article by Alicia Colon, pedophilia rates among priests are far lower than among the general population. (Their rates homosexual obsession with teenaged males is about the same as in the general population.) There will be a time soon when such abuses within the Church will be a thing of the past, or very, very rare. You won't be able to say that about government run institutions now or anytime in the near future. But you'll still keep those anti-Catholic knives sharp and ready, won't you? > Francis Drouillard, PE Novato, CA 94945 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
