Uncomfortable fact for apologists on this thread.

In a study on sexual abuse by priests in the US(Boston I think), very few of the victims were young children, the vast majority being teenage males and young male adults, all of whom had passed puberty.....Go figure.

I am sure that Paedophilia in the sense of pre- pubescent children as victims is very much rarer than we are led to believe.

Much of what we are seeing in the Catholic Church is simply opportunistic homosexual behaviour......Change the Celibacy Rule, encourage heterosexuals to take up the priesthood, and the problem will solve itself.

BTW.....If I had ever developed any of the ideas mentioned above about children, my own or anyone elses.....I would certainly taken measures to safeguard them....like blowing my brains out.