re: #79 MandyManners

I don’t see how the vow of celibacy enters into it at all. Pedophilia is not about sex. It’s about power.

Celibacy enters into it because it restricts the pool of applicants. The people who go on to become priest are (I think) more likely to have borderline personalities. I wouldn’t argue that celibacy causes predation, but I also can’t rule out that somebody who can’t live up to the vow of celibacy may try to take advantage of someone he thinks won’t tell on him. That means kids.