re: #70 albusteve

well whatever…that’s not the issue

How is that not the issue? These priests, and those that cover for them are violating their vows. They may have had no intention of keeping them or they thought they’d be strong enough to keep them. The priesthood has been a place where many men can isolate themselves from a society that they can’t handle for whatever reason. Whether they were perverts all along, or they had some level of cowardice that makes them incapable of dealing with the perverts, it certainly has made this catastrophe possible.