This morning on BBC Radio 4, the Sunday programme, Trevor Baylis, the inventor of the wind up radio, spoke about his abuse at the - I was going to say hands, but that is anatomically wrong - of a Church of England priest. Nothing said about the marital status of the man, but much made of his being six foot tall and Baylis being only 5 at the time. He was told it was part of worship, and secret, and did not tell until his parents were dead. The priest was moved to another parish at some point.

It isn't just the Catholics, and not just to do with celibacy.

There was also a piece about the Pope and how he had, as Ratzinger, brought in that sex with someone under 18 was a clerical crime in the church. (Not sure of the exact terminology.) It did seem odd to me that something which would be a crime in the states' views needed separate identification in the church, and did rather imply that men suspected of this crime would not be expected to be dealt with in secular courts.

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