Yes, it has a lot to do with it. In fact it has everything to do with it.Originally Posted by lizbud
These people cannot live a normal sexual life as do those outside of the clergy, so therefore they must conceal it. And what better way is there to conceal it, than to target children who they frighten into silence ????
As I said before...I have seen it within my own ex family....these were vulnerable children....the young...those who are still trying to figure out what life is all about, and what is right and what is wrong. The priests know this, and exploit it accordingly.
A story........I don't know how true this is, but I'll let you figure it out.
Back in the 1970's, when I was a shopfitter carpenter, I had a labourer (all of us tradesmen had one that was assigned to us). My labourer Teddy, was Maltese, and I worked with him for some 5 years, and became very good friends with him. Teddy hated the church, he was a very strict Catholic and paid his tithes accordingly, and it was 10% of his wages. Of course he kept paying and paying, and did so because it was EXPECTED of him, to maintain the guise of being a good Catholic.
One day he told me, that in Malta there were these convents that trained nuns. When their training was finished, the priests would come along and pick out the most prettiest of the nuns, and have them posted to the Vatican....you can guess what for.
Like I said....I can't vouch for the truth of this.
But I did know Teddy, and he was a pretty honest sort of a guy.
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