I’m not sure I want – as others seem to do – these malevolent assholes killed, but it really would be extremely satisfying to see the police march into some church, drag the bishop from the altar and walk him down the aisle and out into the bright sunshine IN CHAINS.

Where are the civil authorities? Why aren’t these abusers in jail? Why aren’t these bishops being rounded up and indicted?

How about every country where Catholics have a lot of power and control? Even here in the US of A. I imagine now that all these people have come forward in Ireland it may encourage victims in other countries to come forward and speak up, as well. The Catholic church is sinking itself.

I bet we would find out all kinds of weirdass stuff concerning the Mormons. They already have problems with marrying off youngsters to old men, etc.

Oh wait…before the fire, take all the valuables out and sell them and give the proceeds to the victims.

Yeah, this is one more personal reminder of my “yute”; having gone through the Chicagoland Catholic schools from kindergarten through University level (ca. 1945-1960s).
My mother came from Ireland in the late 1920s; and she’s the real reason I was raised Catholic.
I actually had a pretty enjoyable and rather uneventful experience in my educational trek; and I’d say, a pretty good education, too.
The only weird experience I remember…quite vividly…was in my Sophomore High School Latin class; I had a Christian Brother teacher who kept students after school hours if, for example, a translation assignment wasn’t done on the given day. On one occasion, after finishing the translation, and having made a few mistakes, he had me slung over his lap, whilst he stuck a pin in my ‘bum’ for any uncorrected mistakes. (a prick for each mistake?…Yeah…what a prick?) It was done, however, with a certain humorous (camouflage?); and because I had such respect for his being a member of the Christian Brothers, I didn’t make a big deal of it…at the time. Also, during that time period, I had no real practical psychological knowledge, which would have pegged him immediately as some kind of sadist. Now, of course, I realize that religions ARE sado-masochist…by their very nature.
A long time later, at my 25th High School reunion, back in 1982, I did find out he had left the Order…for whatever reasons.

“Tangentially” (That IS a very useful word for an atheist, isn’t it?)…
This also reminds me of something which was brought home to me at the 50th H.S. reunion in May, 2007. There was much ado about the whole school “Mission” tradition in all the talks preceeding the Class of ‘57 dinner; and at one point a comment was made referencing a passage from the Bible; at which time I blurted out something atheistic, which I can’t remember the content of now, and looked, a bit self-consciously, around to see if anybody close to me noticed. Nobody gave any indication; but a couple of my close friends, that were sitting close me, probably heard it, but they already knew, somewhat, about my being an atheist.
My reason for bringing this up is that, at least in my experience, VERY few people of my generation who’ve gone all the way through the amount of indoctrination that I had, have managed to break away from the amazingly powerful mind control.
You see it popping up, often, in the broadcast media…even somewhat younger people like Paul Begala, Rick Sanchez, Chris Matthews, etc.; who very often bring up the fact that they’re Catholic, with no additional apologetic phrase like…
“but, I no longer attend Church, or swallow the official dogmas”, or…better yet?…
“I’ve completely given up believing in any fucking (or non-fucking) tyrannical gods…yada, yada!”
Of course…that really would scare the “BeJeebus” out of their “handlers” and stir up a lot of viewers.
Actually, I’m waiting for something like that to happen.
Olbermann, though I don’t think he’s Catholic, seems right on the edge, sometimes, of blurting out…
“I’m a full-blown atheist!…Put that in your pipe and choke on it…any of you who are STILL delusional, fucking brainwashed religious assholes!” ?

I had the misfortune to be raised as a catholic myself. But by the time I reached the age of 12, I realized it was all bullshit. I have three young sons now and I can promise you that I will NEVER allow them to attend church.