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Originally posted by Christien
.........Putting vulnerable kids together with people forced to live an unnatural lifestyle of celibacy and you're just begging for problems.
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Christien,
I'd like to disagree with you that this is somehow a Catholic problem........but I can't. I think there clearly IS a problem with sex scandals and the clergy in general, but ironically I can't think of the last time I heard about a Cathloic priest having an affair with a parishoner or getting caught with a prostitute, etc. I'm sure it HAS happened... you just don't seem to hear that about them.
But as to the idea that becoming a priest and taking a vow of celibacy somehow MAKES you into a pedophile? Or sets the stage for you to become a pedophile? I don't buy it. Pedophilia is the result of a deep and nearly incurable psychological illness. You MIGHT be able to drive me do things I would otherwise never do if I were in prison for 30 years (gulp, hard to imagine) but you'd never make me molest children and especially not if I were not in prison and freely surrounded by women parishoners and nuns who ALSO took a vow of celibabcy - and I don't hear about any of THEM molesting anyone. Your theory doesn't wash.