How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up.

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Thousand plus years.

I don't know exactly when sneaky catholic scribes changed up the wording to make being gay bad except when they're being gay with children. But it's definitely their doing.

Catholics did not write the scripture that says being gay is bad; that’s from the Torah - the Old Testament. Christianity came after Judaism and believes in both the old and new testaments.

You could look up the exact text for it easily. It’s basically “he who lies with a man as with a woman…” and something about him being an abomination and should be put to death or something like that.

Pretty sure there isn't a single Catholic among them that would tell you such actions weren't sinning...

Totally. You think they parade around at NAMBLA marches or something?

They would if they were honest.

But don't worry. Catholics don't have a monopoly on child abuse. Evangelical youth pastors are gunning for the crown. (They'll never get close. But they're trying)

It surprises me how often that point is lost... that said, of all people, you'd hope a priest would know better :(

Who cares if it's a sin if you can confess and wipe the state clean or get an indulgence beforehand. And everybody sins, so don't cast the first stone, etc etc. They'll come up with some way to excuse, sweep under the rug, whatever.