I sort of suspected it, but not until Father Murnane and the rest of the priests started asking at every mass for the prayers of everyone for all priests. He didn't say for all religious...... brothers, deacons, nuns, lay-brothers and sisters.......just priests. This has nothing to do with us praying for more vocations to increase the population of priests and nuns because people just tend not to do it anymore. No.......we are even praying that Pope Benedict's burdens be lightened. I hate to be the one to point out the obvious, but if this pope had, at the time he was merely a prince of the church, done what he should have done, perhaps his burden wouldn't be so heavy now and a lot of children, now grown, would have been spared the tragic misery of violation. I do not fear homosexuals in the priesthood. They are adults who, if they have sex, have it with other consenting adults, unlike the monstrous pedophile, who takes advantage of his own authority and his victim's innocence for the selfish purpose of sexual gratification. A priest having sex with another adult, regardless of gender, may be a no-no to the church and to society, but if the other adult consents, there is no crime. Pedophilia is a crime...........period.
The church's role in all of this should be as any specialized employer, to screen applicants thoroughly and monitor any suspicious activity. I don't mean a continuous witch-hunt, but I do mean that the church should have a strong role, as the arbiter of morality, in educating the public at large and children about the hazards of life including the potential exposure to sexual predators.
Be brave, O Bride of Christ, and make the effort to protect your children, not just figuratively, but literally.
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