SerjoHlaaluDramBero

I am an honorably discharged Marine Corps veteran, currently going to school full-time. I served from 2009 to 2013. Can I do what you do? What/who do I need to know?

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allowing priestly marriage may reduce sex abuse cases

Anglican Ordinariate Catholic priests and Eastern Rite Catholic priests actually are allowed to be married.

Also, there is no correlation between celibacy and sexual misconduct — most sex abusers are married or otherwise engaged in "normal" relationships.

I think the problem has more to do with the "wrong types" being allowed to enter diocesan seminaries in the 20th century. Simply put, these scandals just aren't taking place in traditionalist communities.

You two ought to get together and watch Rick & Morty some time.

Thank you for taking the time to do this. I have two questions.

1.) According to a 2007 Associated Press report, Protestants abuse minors at a higher rate than Catholic clergy in America. According to Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft, it is estimated that American public school teachers abuse children as much as 100 times the rate of Catholic clergy, and receive a similar level of protection from school districts and teachers' unions who move abusive teachers around to different areas.

In your opinion as a journalist, why do you think that decades-old Catholic abuse scandals receive so much more attention from the press than these more prevalent ongoing scandals in Protestant churches and public schools, despite the perpetrators having the same level of societal trust and responsibility in their communities as Catholic clergy?

2.) In your opinion, why is it that sex abuse scandals are seemingly non-existent among Traditionalist clergy from Latin Mass communities, but so prevalent among clergy from mainstream diocesan seminaries and modernist communities?