Those men are criminals and they are a small number. Why should anyone base reevaluation on such a small sampling?
Exactly so. And those who rape teen-aged girls ought not to get away with their crimes either.
Thank you Nurse. Yes, it is true then that if homosexuals are evaluated as a mental health disorder on a case by case basis, then ergo homosexuality must be a mental health disorder!
And what exactly again was the proportion of teen age girls raped by Priests as opposed to teen age boys raped by Priests?
Have you notice just how miniscule is the number of priests who rape teen-aged girls? I wonder why?
No, we don’t know what the mental health disorder might actually be.
You spoke of rapists, not priest rapists; and I agreed that all rapists need be punished. What’s the problem?
That is why there are not heterosexual Priests living with all nuns. Too much temptation, the same temptation homosexuals have living with men.
Crisis in the Church! “Traditionalists” who want to turn back the clock, sedevacantists, “progressives” who want to allow all forms of license, priests who steal from their parishes, priests who have affairs with female parishioners, priests who engage in homosexual practices; all the doing of just the homosexuals? They’re the whipping boys for all the crises in the Church?
No, actually it’s the doings of bad priests. Not all homosexuals are bad priests and not all bad priests are homosexual.
No, just the ones who rape teenage boys which is 90% of the current crisis! Jeeze, take the blinders off. You aren’t a homophobe if you admit to reality.
Eric (the other one),
And you aren’t a Catholic if you judge all by generalities.
Just looking at reality Norwich. This particular crisis is being caused by priests molesting post-pubescent boys. If that didn’t happen, then the number of assults would have been so small that it would hardly have been a crisis.
You are assuming they are celibate
We do not need answers from homosexual priests. We need faithful priests that teach the truth. The requirements of the priesthood are not dependent on open dissenters. They are dependent upon the deposit of faith given to us by God. We have let dissenters go on for far too long. When this is cleaned up (and only when), we will no longer see a homosexual problem in the Church.
Why do you presume that a homosexual priest cannot be faithful to the Church and teach the truth?
I hear you Richardols but we need to face the fact that there appears to be a strong strand of homosexuality in the priesthood. Many are wondering why. Many are wondering what damage may have happened and what does the future hold if these questions are left unanswered.