To be brief, the Pope can offer a SOLUTION to priestly pedophilia: marriage. Or, does the Pope prefer "celibacy" over the well-being of children? It is time that priests be allowed to marry and thereby put an end to the defilement of children by "Christian" persons.
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Emphatically disagree that celibacy is the cause and marriage the solution;
(bet that within a few generations we'll be shocked at the high divorce rate
within the Catholic Priesthood).
A married RC priesthood was the norm from the Apostles to the Great Schism
of 1054 between the Roman and Greek Rites.
Cultural tolerance of behavior such as homosexuality has led to its encouragement
and then to permissiveness, which changed attitudes and then societal norms.
Consider; large groupings of males such as the Military, the Boy Scouts and other
Ministries have made these institutions subject to predatory behavior for a long time.
None of this is news but the disgraceful handling of this scandal by the Church
Hierarchy has made it far worse.