++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++
Nope. I'll have to check that one out.
Not to condone the immoral actions of some priests in any way, but, IMHO, the people who seem so shocked about this are complete idiots.
You take x% of the human population that has or will ultimately have a criminal record -- or even take the fact that there are no 100% moral nor 100% immoral people in this world to begin with. And you slap a collar on them, you send them to college, or you place them in the midst of a major earthquake ... and suddenly it's unthinkable that any one of them would be capable of doing something criminal. Grow the hell up. The world doesn't work that way, you know?
As if every single church and denomination is somehow free of its own human malice and immoral behavior. And I don't just mean the Jerry Falwells and the Jim Bakers of this world. I mean that there are child molesters in high places in every religious order of any significant number of followers. And if you don't believe that, you're as naive as someone who reads tribalfootball.