Bishop John Kirby apologises for claiming paedophilia was a friendship gone wrong

BTW an interesting foot note. IMHO the Anglican church is really close of course to the Catholic churh. Anglican priests can marry but then they cannot become bishops. BTW we hear very little if anything about Anglicans molesting our children

handsome68 - Pedophilia comes from something called "sexual immaturity". When normal sex is denied, made to be dirty etc,, some people ultimately go bad. They pick their victims of the age when they themselves were made to feel bad about normal reproductive sex etc.............Its the law of Unintended consequences - the church about 1000 AD prevented priests from marrying . The real reason was that being a priest in those days was like an independent contractor. People would pay them directly for blessings, funeral serices, communion etc,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the church did the celibacy thing so it could marry the priest to the church and inherit his estate...............Remember the recent flap in England when the church tried to claim priests were independent contractors and the church wasnt responsible for their ruining childrens lives, to say nothing of how many kids committed suicide?.............BTW this also shows that the celibacy thing had nothing to do with Jesus 12 unmarried diesciples. Wouldnt Jesus want to have the priests help procreate life?

the appology tridk is an old one. The bad people do something bad / horrid, knowing it will catch the headlines. after the damage is done, they appologize which doesnt reach many people. IN psychology its called "the bad is more powerful then the good.............Put these creaps aand in particular the heirarchy in the slammer. I've read that molesters get "special treatment in jail". Many criminals are people who were molested in one way or another - sexually, physically, even economically - eg extreme poverty...............Doest Pope Benedict have a stamp that says "EXcommunicated" on it?...................No wonder in Ireland the church is collapsing. and many other places as well.

Send him to the Vatican to be with others of his kind who were "naive" or send him to jail where friendships sometimes cross the boundary line. Perhaps being on the receiving end with adults instead of the giving end with children would provide a different point of view.

Anglo-Irish journalist Kevin Myres, (when writing his Irishman's Diary for Ireland's quality broadsheet - The Irish Times), once described the term "paedophile-ia-ic" as a misnomer. By which he meant that to truly love a child one would never exploit ones age disparity with it. Hence, sexual exploitation of a child isn't love-of-children, the love in this case being inappropriately erotic rather than agapic or caritic in nature. An infanto-centric theology administered by an occupationally narcissistic/arrestedly developed/celibacy imposed clerics, will never be anything other than problematical.

He's not saying he was wrong, he's saying he was wrong to say it. Get these men out!

Why isn't this evil man in jail?

WHY is he hanging onto his position in the Clonfert Diocese? What can he gain from it? Surely the parishioners can gain nothing but more humiliation and concern for the future.

Someone with such poor training in moral reasoning should not be bishops. Most of them seem to have no moral intelligence.

Sometimes I think that the education of these priests and religious simply might not have included teaching about crimes like pedophilia. That might have leave it open for them to sort of explore it, sort of in their own free time. I read once where a convicted pedophile said that a little girl (in this case) had "led him on" by the ease with which she opened her legs. I mean, you can't make this stuff up, unless you want to make this stuff up. There is simply no "excuse".

That's not an apology. After that length of time he was obviously cajoled or coerced into making a statement. He should have made it on television, on bended knee, but once again the RCC scores an own goal with a lame 'sorry' followed by excuses and 'I was taken out of context'. When will they ever learn?'