"Catholic Church has ruled on Pederasty"
Ruling on something is not a major issue unless it prevents something that is common practice, which I don't believe it is in any religious group - temproral laws have set age limits to sex which, I believe are quite adequate, if sometimes inflexible (they criminalise schoolchildren for 'doin' what comes naturally' without accepting the situation)
The same applies yto many of the 'Muslim abuse' cases' which happen between young people and are blown up to become Islamic trafficking
Gang culture in Britain, irrespective of race, includes the voluntary sharing of partners
I can remember young women of school age being referred to as 'the school bike' because she enjoyed sex.
If Christian ruling on pederasty was all there was, it wouldn't be in the situation it is today, but it extends far beyond that.
In the past the enjoyment of sex was outlawed, as was open discussion, education, contraception, termination, the size of families, what you wore - even where you sat in church.
The very natural (and enjoyable) act of sex was made a necessary evil - "the church won't stay out of our bedrooms" was a common complaint.
The main targets for the Church's fury were invariably the women - they were the ones forced to the humiliation of 'the cutty stool' while the men were envied for their conquests
Women who were seduces reluctantly or even raped, ended up in the Magdalene Laundries while the seducers and rapists were ignored.
I can only say to Joe that he really hasn't anything to worry abou as far as his religion is concernd
This has only ever been a religious issue by those who deliberately make it one - especially by those who defend what went on by accusing those who express our anger as attacking or hating Catholics - they are the ones who 'hate religion'
It is churchmen and women who did the damage and the church hierarchy who protected them and allowed them to do it - and continue to sit on the evidence.
Jim Carroll