Priests, Ministers, Pastors, Rabbi et al are by the very nature of their jobs, role models. Kids are taught (I certainly was) that clergy were to be looked up to and trusted. Breaking that trust is one of the most unforgivable of deeds and yet, we are taught to forgive. Now, I'm all for forgiveness but if you know that someone has a problem, and you not only cover it up but allow that person to continue to have direct access to kids, than I say you are as guilty as the person who committed the crime. A child should never have to stuggle between trusting an adult like they've been taught and knowing that what that adult is doing to them is wrong. I understand forgiveness but whoever said we can still forgive them, we'll just forgive them in jail, was absolutely right.

I am a Catholic but I believe that we (catholics) have failed miserably to change with the times. To be a priest in the Catholic religion a man must give up his entire life to the church. A noble thing for sure but realistically, the pool of men willing to do that is getting smaller and smaller. Frankly,I think it's time we give the women in the Catholic religion a chance to turn this thing around.

My wife and I sing in a contemporary praise choir at a local Methodist Church and that is the only place we go to church.....I'm not saying this is the reason but it certainly is a contributer.

Frank