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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (3201)	3/17/2002 9:41:20 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Specialists also don't know what percentage of priests who molest boys are gay. And, they say, there are other equally important factors in the abuse of adolescent boys by priests, including the stunted psychosexual development of some priests, the access priests have to teenage boys, and the authority priests have over them. Is this point more palatable to you when you see it in the Globe than when posted by your fellow thread participants? Thanks for the link. I shall read the article. Karen

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (3201)	3/17/2002 9:46:57 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Hello JC, What an enormous relief! For those interested is a better understanding of this crisis in the Catholic Church, the Boston Globe has an excellent in-depth article today. This report suggests that "pedophilia" may not be an accurate characterization of the problem, inasmuch as as many as 90 percent of priest abusers target teenage boys as their victims, and incidents involving prepubescent children are rare. I can't tell you how much better I feel to know that a Catholic priest using his standing and power to seduce, say, a fourteen year old isn't a crime as bad as pedophilia. I had no idea that seduction and rape by an authority figure after puberty was any less traumatic than before puberty. Thanks for setting us straight.