Thread: Why are there so many priests that are pedos?

Originally Posted by bacardi

perhaps because priests can't marry?

Do you know any unmarried people? Are they all pedophiles?

Originally Posted by ian

Do you know any unmarried people? Are they all pedophiles?

it was just a thought LOL

the church is the only institution in the world who accepts gays...more than any other..


why can't you all see this? asnwers the d a m n. questions please!!

church is like an open door for gays, they join because they feel LOVED there or whatever other excuse they want to use. There are so many gays in church its disgusting...Jesus would never go along with this.

so you have tons of gays roaming around in a church setting, whats gonna happen? Pedofilia.

Originally Posted by diligent

Because the Catholic Church mandated (Council of Trent I think) that all priests remain celibate, so it could save money by removing its obligation to find sufficient funds for the whole family, as opposed to funding one person ie the priest. Not only,as a consequence, did this foster numerous paedophile priests (we will never know how many), but history is replete with priests, including popes, who fathered a vast number of children!

Bull(*)(*)(*)(*). If that were the case, then married couples wouldn't moleste kids at all.

What happened is that back in the 60s the Church let a bunch of hippie leftists into their schools and they wound up being the group you see today being accused of molesting kids.

It's really not as many priests as you think either. An accusation doesn't prove guilt.

Originally Posted by jedimiller

so you have tons of gays roaming around in a church setting, whats gonna happen? Pedofilia.

"The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children. But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are fixated on children."

Read More:http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbo...lestation.html

Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis


Do everyone a favour jedi: give the karaoke a break for a while and sit down and read a book or two. The amount of ignorance you display on this subject is, quite frankly, alarming.

You seem like a decent sort of guy, however, your outdated, homophobic, ignorant views on all matters to do with sexuality seem to be something from another planet.

Please, do some research.

"The number of Americans who believe the myth that gay people are child molesters has declined substantially."

Originally Posted by FreeWare

It seems we are in agreement about the term pedophilia*), so if you could be more specific about your doubts about what I'm talking about, I will try to sort it out for you.


*) Except, of course, your assertion that the pedophile usually targets boys. This is not so. I will not do a grand search on this while on this computer but here's a quote from an article that I think you'll find representative of the issue once you divert from the usual prejudice that circulates in society:

- "Preference for children as sex partners may not be exclusive, and more often than not, pedophiles have no gender preference in prepubescent children. However, by a margin greater than two to one, most victims are girls."

Emphasis mine. Source.

I have no absolute proof, but in almost every case that is published in the media and various 'docos' on this topic, boys are the victims. I can't recollect any event (that doesn't mean there haven't been any) that relates to girls. Presumably and unfortunately (I am of the male species)it is nearly always committed by males on male children. Maybe, we are still to hear about the secret sexual mores of RC nuns, as it's certainly hard to believe this never occurred!

Certain artists (and fashions stores)are not backward in promoting the sexualisation of children, as epitomised by a recent episode in Australia, where a well known photographer was allowed into a school (by the female Principal) with the specific aim of taking photos of nude underage children!

Originally Posted by TheHat

Bull(*)(*)(*)(*). If that were the case, then married couples wouldn't moleste kids at all.

What happened is that back in the 60s the Church let a bunch of hippie leftists into their schools and they wound up being the group you see today being accused of molesting kids.

It's really not as many priests as you think either. An accusation doesn't prove guilt.

What on earth do you mean by this assertion:

'An accusation doesn't prove guilt.'

Many priests have been found guilty of molestiing young boys. Just this month another priest has been found guilty in this country (in the State where I live)of sexually molesting young boys. How much proof does anyone need to see that the RC hierarchy covered up these ignominious acts, that is the tragedy. And, of course, we will never know to what extent this occured in the distant past. But I very much doubt that it only occurred in relatively recent times. It's no wonder the RC Church is having immense difficulties in attracting men to the priesthood.

Last Christmas, at the suggestion of my brother, who is a practising Catholic (I'm not), to mass and the priests were so doddery I thought, that at any moment, they would stumble and do harm to themselves.

The RC hierarchy have a lot answer for!

Originally Posted by jedimiller

And if we were debating in court, I would beat you on every argument.

I said, on the other pages that Religion and church accepts homosexuals as normal people...They enter the church, knowing full well others can't question their sexuality, because that is wrong under god and you're not supposed to judge them...therefore, they can do anything they want under the church rule. Because you can't judge them. And god is all accepting and forgiving. That is what they believe...that is why they commit the crime.

Please. I don't know what a homosexual - for example Peter - is thinking. You also don't know anything about. The catholic church doesn't need such an abstrahotic form of defense.

If someone likes to become a priest of the catholic church then he will become a priest of the church - wether he's speaking about his sexual orientation or not. And - dear friend: If god is everything accepting and forgiving then he can do so - god doesn't need anyones allowness to do whatever he likes to do. I heard he's full-aged since some eternities.

http://youtu.be/NVlBflmzqn8

Originally Posted by TheHat

... It's really not as many priests as you think either. ...

It's extreme seldom - although all catholics have to pay for. Every married man or every non-priest-man is much more dangerous in average. But as seldom as hard is the shock.

http://youtu.be/eC-JKId3SoA

The odd aspect of all this is how divided opinion is on this sort of thing. An RC social worker of my acquaintance just laughed and said 'Well, good heavens, nobody ever leaves kids alone with a priest'. Others are shocked. I think that like quite a lot of nastiness it has existed in tradition societies like Ireland for a very long time, and is just part of the hypocricy that goes with a 'national' religion. And the stories I hear about - say - the Christian Brothers who were so influential in the past indicate that those who weren't paedophiles were sadists - as were a great many nuns. We're in this world to suffer, and they saw to it children did!