"Jim, I don't know of anyone who's been doing that. If there are any, I agree with you."
There have been a fir amount of suggestion on this and on the 'Suffer The Children' thread I started that parents shared the responsibility for the abuse by allowing it to happen -- hence my response here.
Here in Ireland one priest has blamed the children themselves for 'putting temptation in our way'.
The Pope's 'Nuffin' to do wiv me guv' epistle has blamed the abuse on the increased secularisation of the church; completely ignoring tha fact that, though the reports that have disclosed the horrors of what happened only go back a few decades, it is now accepted that abuse has been occurring on a large scale since at least the end of WW2, and almost certainly before that.
The genii that has not yet been let out of the bottle is the almost inevitable research into what happened in all of the other Irish Doicese - now demanding investigation - and the Magdalene Laundries.
Watch this space
Jim Carroll