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dave: I was on-board with everything you said until the last sentence. As you know, and others are only acknowledging with great reluctance, the current scandal is the result of Church leadership turning a blind eye to closeted gay men in the seminary...and eventually in the priesthood. Period. Many of these men preyed on emotionally vulnerable teenage boys. If Bishop Tobin knew about it, he had a legal duty to report it to the police, independent of what he did or didn't think his boss was doing. I see no evidence that Church leadership has taken any steps to clean up the root of this horrific evil. Frankly, the Church remains over it's head when it comes to the entire matter of gay men in the priesthood, which has been a dirty little secret for a very long time.