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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (5286)	3/28/2002 7:48:11 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

very noble and pure Noble and pure it may be, but practical? The streets of Hell are paved with good intentions. I somehow doubt this is a problem just of this century. The fact that it may not have been as widely discovered and disseminated previously doesn't mean it wasn't there. But this is a question that defies proof.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (5286)	3/29/2002 8:09:48 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

There are still orders of priests who are cloistered away from the world. But for ordinary parish priests, the world has crept into their beds, so to speak, through the movies, television, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, and all the other windows on the world that no one can escape in ordinary life today, even in their own homes. Good intentions have lost out to a multitude of temptations (which is hardly unique to the Priesthood). No, JC, priests have crept into children's beds. You are coming perilously close to excusing abysmal behavior, not only of individual priests, but of the Church itself (in covering up these crimes and ignoring the hearts and souls of Catholics who have been abused) by implying that it's bad old world that's to blame.