[Shawnee123]

Of course there are "men of the cloth" in other religions who are child molestors. Jinx' point, if I am reading correctly, is that the Catholic Church hid it instead of dealing with it (we are taught at a young age about guilt so I guess by that point a little more guilt was nothing.)

It's a bit more difficult to become a priest than it is to become Reverend Schmoe of Unity God of Church of Christ and Hallelujah Cookies: they got those monasteries and celibacies. Reverand Schmoe got ordained over the interwebz. You'd think the Catholic church would do more than take whoever they can get: another point being that in modern times men do not want to have to choose between having a wife and children and being a minister of god's word.

And I had the coolest priest at the elementary school/church I attended as a kid. He was great. As was Sister N, the principal of the school.

No, it's not condoned by all Catholics, but the policy of the church, the powers in that church, has always been to hide and deny. It's about power, it's not about god.