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How do Catholics stand by priestly celebacy when it breeds such predatory behavior?  How do they stand by papal infalliability when the Pope personally sanctioned such actions?

In 1993, with complaints about Father Murphy landing on his desk, Archbishop Weakland hired a social worker specializing in treating sexual offenders to evaluate him. After four days of interviews, the social worker said that Father Murphy had admitted his acts, had probably molested about 200 boys and felt no remorse.

"As Jesus said, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,'" the pope continued. "We must send a clear message to these hundreds—perhaps thousands—of children whose sinful ways have tempted so many of the church's servants into lustful violation of their holy vows of celibacy. The church forgives them for their transgressions and looks upon them not with intolerance, but compassion."

Way to stand up to those old white guys!

"In breaking publicly with Roman Catholic bishops over the health care bill, a group of nuns has once again exposed the long-running rift between liberal and conservative theology in the Catholic Church.

Isn't it expected at this point?  I think it'd be an interesting twist if the Pope was found to be directly involved in relocating abusive priests and facilitating their pedophilia, if only as yet another counter-example to the whole papal infallibility belief.