Do you know why so many priests are pedophiles?

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38. Sexual abuse pervades our life choices.......

Let's pause to consider that what the RC church has done has been to thoughtlessly and carelessly take actions to protect its investment in the training of thousands - hundreds of thousands of priests through the centuries.

It takes 6 to 10 years to educate and train a young man to be ordained a priest. And that training doesn't usually include basic sexuality development in young boys becoming young men.

Letting the young candidates figure out for themselves the mysteries of their developing sexuality and its impact on their lives and the lives of the members of the catholic communities entrusted to them after ordination doesn't seem to have worked.

Another group, the military, has the same problems as any other group of people enduring and negotiating sexual contacts by its members as they toil through their enlistments or their military agreements to serve in the armed forces of their nation.

The military has had a changing if not questionable process to regulate the treatment and disposal of homosexuals who have lied about their sexual orients at enlistment to sexual onslaughts in their units. But that's another thread.

It's not just this group. or that. It's about defining what must be done to protect young people from the onslaughts of predators anywhere and defining strict processes including timely prosecutions and appropriate and equitable punishments for offenders who cannot offer basic human respect and honor for each other and for the more vulnerable members of society.