when the only goal is to destroy and condemn, I think it becomes bigotry. There is no doubt in my mind that the molestation and abuse of children was a horrible thing. We have to find out why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again. But what's happening here at Mudcat is a feeding frenzy. There's no attempt to understand - it's all about blame and destruction.

I think you're a bit easy dismissing the discussions here as a 'feeding frenzy'. I think these discussions are in reaction to problems they occur in the societies we live in.

Discussion here are a response of the ever growing number of cover-ups that are coming to light, in Ireland the involvement of cardinal Brady in hushing up the young victims of Brendan Smtyh and the other cases quoted above, the ever more cases emerging in Germany, yesterday the Dutch papers were full of the cover up of abuse at a RC institute for blind children (here). A distinct pattern is growing ever more distinct.