sometimes with regard to the catholic priests/altarboys it's said that, you know, the frequency of pederasty among the priesthood is probably similar to that of the general population. um. horseshit. it seems to be everywhere, all the time. one would have to think that really there was an informal practice what we call child sexual abuse in the church: that this was a conventional practice, perhaps even to be encouraged as an aid to...celibacy, especially as a screaming misogynist might understand it: the real degradation is to touch a woman. i bet there are documents of this, going back centuries, only you can't subpoena the vatican, you know?

then again, as i've said many times, you can see that someone who views their own sexuality as horrendously sinful - especially self-loathing gay men in societies of extreme homophobia - would want to make a vow of celibacy. and then of course like most of us when we swear off sex such people are not able to keep that vow. now sex with boys might actually be proposed as a necessary outlet, a way to keep people in the priesthood.

i would say that if you haven't learned this lesson before now, you should let this teach you to stop being a catholic. or anyway be one only in the very attenuated sense in which you repudiate the authority of the human hierarchy of the church entirely. now that you can't exactly be a catholic and do that should teach you something...