[Skybird]

A hotly debated argument in current german debate is the theory of somebody just days ago, that celibacy itself is attractive for pedophiles. but I missed the argumentation behind it, I read it was in some TV debate with clerics, if I remember correctly. IMO the problem is not so much latent homosexuality in all those priests, but the supression of sexuality in church morals themselves. It is against human nature, and necessarily must lead to conflicts. And it always will.

It started with one school in Berlin, the Canisius College which is very well-known in Berlin (in my schooldays it was considered an "elite school"). It now covers almost all of Germany, with hundred of cases becoming known. The church, like always, finds soft words, and, like always, covers itself and refuses as far as it can any "foreign" interference by law enforcement authorities and police investigators. They want to deal with it internally (like they did in the past decades). But when the minister of justice recently accused the church of not willing in to full cooperation with the police and dodging justice's standards, she was massively attacked by the church and and and...

Britain. Ireland. North America, now Germany. I'm sure there is plenty of nasty stuff to be discovered in every country where the Catholic church has major representations.

But the church and sexuality - what else do you need to say.

Or as a friend recently put it: "Männer in Weiberröcken - joh mei..."