Sex abuse in church

[wombat2u2004]

The Catholic Church isnt infallible. For all of its faults the church still helps more then it harms.

It does....but first it helps itself.

[Marigold2]

I feel for all the good Catholics who go to church and put their faith into their priest and pope. This is very painful, it goes to the very root of your upbringing and family tradion.
However the church is a business, and it runs on money, greed and sexs.
I agree with many posts, not allowing priests to marry is not how humans are wired.
God made us sexual creatures. One problem that I have seen is the vast number of gay catholic priests. In fact I can't remember a straight one in years.
Here is a place the gay can hide, hide and live their lives amoung other gay men.
Why wasn't Frances interested in girls as a teenager his very devote parents wondered, but now they are so thrilled he wants to be a priest.
Bingo. It's a perfect cover and yes it can lead to sexual frustration and secert shame, it's all so horrid.
One of the worst things about sexual abuse is the life long mental problems victims suffer. When they do speak of abuse 20, 30 40 years in their past the tears flow and the pain is raw and bleeding.
They lose their innocence, trust, hope, joy, happiness. It is not just the physical act that haunts them but the gulit and shame that they suffer all their lives. It is a death, a death of the soul.
I have a dear friend who's daughter was molested by her uncle and he also molested his two daughters. I have three cousins who were molested by their father and another family member who also was molested by her uncle.
These young women were changed, changed profoundly. Every vice you can think of they did afterwards. Drugs, abuse to family, thief, prostitution, you name it and these girls did it, jail time. It runied families, it ruined lives. Sex abuse is a lifetime of mental pain.
Lets do what we can to stop this.