"most here are more interested in what motivates the Catholic Church, than what motivated the bastards who actually committed these disgusting crimes."

Yes, the discussion moved on quite some time ago to why the Church covered up crimes of it's Priests. As to what motivated the Priests, it was Peadophilia. Paedophiles rape children, not adults who aren't getting sex with other adults. During my time as a single person, children never began to seem sexually attractive to me. YMMV