What Should Be Done With Paedophile Clergy?

I wouldn't agree with that. A kind of forced celibacy, which is what I think it must be for most Catholic priests, is not really a natural state. I can't see how it could fail to lead to frustration, especially in younger men. For a man, a lot of the pleasure of sex is the release of all that pent up energy. My suspicion is that if not released it can fester. And turn into something nasty, which may explain in part other forms of abuse such as beatings inflicted on countless victims, myself included to a minor extent, by Catholic religious.

There may be some few for whom celibacy is ok because presumably they have no sexual desire.. But there are other issues around all this which would go too far off topic.

Obviously priests who abuse children are not really celibate, but it acts as a cover. I assume the naive Catholic parent assumes their offspring will be safe with a 'celibate' person.

 

they are always a bunch of creepy looking old dudes that a skid row prostitute would turn their nose to.. none are ever handsome. the only way they could get some tickle on the penis is by force. satan loves to infiltrate the church.. like vampires hes easily invited..

 

Dope, however it happens it's fucked up. I appreciate your points but feel I've had enough of this subject.

As I've never suppressed my sexual desires I can't comment on your question. I would say that as one gets older, libido decreases and sex plays a less dominant role, but that's another issue.

However, as a child I went at a young age to a Catholic school run by nuns. The reverend mother, who was in charge, used to hit you on both hands twice with a thick leather strap in front of the class if you misbehaved. I was the recipient of this divine love on only one occasion, but it did hurt a great deal.
I look back now and yes, I think her lack of sexual fulfilment meant that she took pleasure in treating children in that way. Her idea of love had become entirely perverted.

 

For the sake of the conversation at large then apart from whether or not you feel you need to apply additional concern to the subject I would think your lack of experience on the subject makes it very amenable to everyone that is concerned for some insight that you wouldn't have any thing more to say about it. Sorry for any discomfort you may have felt relating to it.

 

No discomfort. But really I feel I've said all I can say. If people want to know about my personal experiences I'm happy to tell, as I did about my childhood exp with the rev. mother. But I have no more to tell that would relate to this topic.

 

While I do think that many to live by the rules of celibacy in the church there are many who do not choose to. There are affairs within congregations and in years past there were a lot of pregnant nuns in convents.

The issue is that the secrecy of the church and the privacy that they then extend to offenders make it ripe for pedophiles to become involved in that church. The desire to cover it up and move them to another parish and shield them from legal ramifications is the problem.

It happens in other professions that involve a trust as well, such as teaching, doctors and all others. The difference is that we no longer hold those in such regard that it is ignored. It is time that those of the clergy were held accountable as well.