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Originally Posted by KuteNurse
Gypsy,
I believe or I would like to think, that Pope John Paul put an end to molestation of children by priests. It probably still goes on, hopefully it does not.
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Is the problem just a few people in the past that had to be gotten rid of? Or is it also the whole notion of expecting adults to live lives of total sexual abstinence. To me this is just wrong, unhealthy, and one more factor that might lead a disturbed person to molest a child. If you surpress normal sexual drive, it will manifest some other way.
Even though the choice to enter the priesthood is a free choice, once a person has begus such a career, the personal and spiritual pressure to live up to expectations of god and the pope and everyone else, and not fail or quit (especially due to all those evil desires of the flesh) must be monumental -- enough to make a fair number of people crack under the pressure.
Sedonia