I think those Germans are going to get riled up..and they do not have a monoreligion in Germany...they are not going to be afraid to really speak out, as they should.

How could the priests have figured they would not have gotten caught? Did they know in advance that it would overlooked? Was there that much of a culture that made it OK?

I think the final nail in the coffin is to get 10 or 11 year olds to sign a document agreeing to silence...

And the Church has expended enormous effort in keeping young men and women apart from each other because of "occasions of sin" etc...huge amounts of energy into keeping young people "pure." It just does not add up, unless you see it as the true sin in their minds was with a woman (and even in marriage unless you were actively desiring a child each and every time, no matter the economic or physical circumstances, sex was still a sin). So how could this culture carry on? ANd it was not isolated instances..they were prepared to deal with this happening..as a byproduct of celibacy perhaps? As preferable to relations with adult women or other grown men? mg