Did he cover up some priests molesting kids?

Language filters are ghey

Big time. May be related to the LA diocese lawsuit.

Maybe he's going to lead a Boy Scout troop.

Teo will convert to Catholicism and be elected in short order.

See?

This is why when the CP illuminati meets you don't get ****ing apricots added to the desert menu...:#

(No, I don't care how much Kevin protests!)

I wonder what the % of preists didnt participate in the coverup of molestation of kids?

That really depends on how you define "participate." If you mean they knew of the allegations and did not go to the police, then a huge percentage. If you mean they actively abused kids or assigned them to a different assignment, then it's a very small amount.

Consider an average Catholic high school in 1961, with 8-15 priests on staff. I don't think it's outrageous that 1/3 of all Catholic high schools had some incidence of abuse. If there was an allegation, the parents would tell the principal (a priest) [note: many abused children did not go forward, understandably, because of embarrassment or fear], who would tell the Archdiocese (priests), and the priest would most often be sent away soon after or given a handslap/verbal reprimand and told not to do it again or else.

But I have to imagine that all of the priests on staff would have known of the allegation, especially if a week after, Fr. _____ was gone.

If you knew children are being sexually abused and you don't notify authorities, is that not a crime?

Ask Penn State's QB coach.

On a personal note, I am Catholic. I loved going to mass.

I can't bring myself to really celebrate as a Catholic anymore, and I certainly have stopped all monetary donations to the Church.

I just can't accept that my money would go towards the comfortable lifestyle of a child molester, or that it might be used to fund hateful anti-gay-marriage propaganda.

That's not what I believe, and I just can't support it.

I look forward to the day when the Catholic church has purged itself of their corruption, but I think that day is a long way off.

The sad thing is that, no matter the religious institution, it is populated with human beings and is thus utterly corruptible at every level. I think the first step towards a "clean" church is transparency. Complete and total transparency.

After this you have no validity...

Since public schools have done the same thing, have you stopped paying your taxes? It's the principle, after all, right?

Okay thx

Bad analogy is bad.