Our too-rude-to-name-himself Guest asks, "Now then, where's the same with all the RC priests who did the same?"

Well, in Ireland, you can read the Ryan Report, or near-daily articles in the Irish Times.

In the U.S., try http://bishopaccountability.org/.

It's not like these things are deep, dark secrets any more.

The Wikipedia article on Catholic Sex Abuse Cases has a bibliography and filmography that will keep you enthralled for years.

I can't tell if this rude Guest is the same rude Guest that said, "the conclusion is, "Guilty as charged" for all that Joe wants it to be otherwise."

Yes, I would much prefer that it be otherwise, but the fact of the matter is that a number of priests were guilty of molesting children.

And indeed, conditions were very poor in Catholic and government-run institutions in Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. A religion that professes the need to "love thy neighbor" betrayed that principle in the operation of these institutions. Alas, I wish it had been otherwise, but I cannot deny that these things happened.

And for that matter, I never have denied that these things happened, and I have worked since the 1960s to right these wrongs - no matter what cowardly nameless people would have you think about me. Why would I do otherwise?

-Joe Offer-