Well, there's no comparison, between a pedophile priest and a priest being involved with a woman. That's just not logical. Yeah, people are disappointed if a priest gets involved with a woman and leaves the priesthood and they lose a priest they love. Yes, they do get scandalized if the priest runs off with the wife of a parishioner. But generally, there's a lot of sympathy expressed, too.

But when it's found out that a priest is a pedophile, all hell breaks loose. Parents don't want their children anywhere near known pedophiles, and they make that well known. There was a time when people just couldn't believe that a priest could do such a thing, so there was denial at least from some factors - but no longer.

MG, it's just not true that Catholics see priests falling for women to be as bad as pedophilia. Most of the noise about the recent pedophilia scandal came from outraged Catholics - after all, it was almost exclusively Catholic children who were the victims.



-Joe-