Jim....When i say that I believe there is selection by gender in most cases of abuse against children; and in the clerical case, of abuse against mainly teenagers and young adults, I am not being discriminatory.

I believe this selection is made by both heterosexually and homosexually orientated abusers.

People who molest babies and very young children (paedophiles) appear to be in a different catagory.....something beyond sanity.

Is is important to make this distinction if we are to fully understand the clerical abuse problem.
To maintain that it is a problem of "Catholicism" per se, is simply wrong.