Catholic Priest rapes another child. When are people going to stop supporting this church?
It was close to midnight Sunday when Woodburn resident James Curths saw the 12-year-old boy running down the street toward him. Curths said the child, panting and out of breath, begged for help, telling him a man was chasing him.
Moments later, a man rounded the corner wearing only underwear. He stood a short distance away, trying to wave the boy over as Curths and his sister-in-law prepared to drive the boy to relatives.
"He was staring at us," said Heather Rodriguez, 28, Curths' sister-in-law, who was also outside. "Then he stood there with his hands on his hips like, 'You're really not going to give him to me?'"
Rodriguez and Curths, 35, told the man they were calling the police. Only then, they said, did the man jog away.
The man who chased after the boy that night, Woodburn police say, was the Rev. Angel Armando Perez, the parish priest at St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn. Early Monday, the boy gave police a detailed account of the alleged sex abuse he said occurred at Perez's home, leading to Perez's arrest later Monday.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/08/police_woodburn_priest_chased.html
Just what is it about this church that makes it's leaders such pedophiles? How much more abuse do kids have to take in these institutions before people stop giving their time, money, and support to these same institutions that hide and protect (this guy isn't going to hide, because he got caught by civilians) pedophile priests and espouse institutional misogyny?
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celibate people commit acts of pedophilia.
Is it possible that a man who never had the desire to be sexually involved with a child entered the church, took the vow of celibacy, and then developed a desire to hurt children? Maybe. But I maintain that it doesn't make sense that this represents the majority of pedophiles in the church. We know from studying pedophiles, and from interviews with them, that they seek out places where they can become involved with children. These are places where they can gain status as a trusted person whom adults would leave their child in their care. That indicates that they were already drawn to children before they took the vow. (In fact, there are many cases where husbands have a sex life with their wives but still go on to hurt their children or friends of their kids. 
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Editing because I forgot to qualify the "mostly opinion." I have been through a layperson's Safe Church training which teaches people where pedophiles look for kids, how they get close to them and groom them, what behaviors are red flags and so forth. It included a video featuring two men discussing how they managed to get kids, and several survivors sharing their own stories. A heartbreaking and anger-inducing seminar, to be sure. :cry
where they have been hiding and protecting child rapers for DECADES, if not centuries, it certainly has made it an institution that is very attractive to that type.
What I don't get is how followers of this church's teachings have not risen up in protest over this issue. Add in the institutionalized misogyny, and one would think you have a recipe for revolution and change. But no, they just keep coming back every Sunday, filling the coffers, pretending everything is just fine...
Weak and ambiguous is about all you will get.
within the hierarchy of the church. She found it impossible to support an organization that allowed the rape of children.
It appears some people can over look the rape of children and continue to support the catholic church. I say good for them! 
we can go after Syracuse and all the other universities.
Do like the kooks do in front of abortion clinics. Make those that support the church feel intimidated, and scared to go. It needs to start somewhere. I was raised catholic, I heard the hate against gay people spewed from the alter. And our church had it's own monster who was later transferred to another church so he can continue to molest children. He was a young priest named Father Michael Wimpy. Wimpy like Popeye's friend, but in reality, wimpy as the need to abuse children. He was all the kids favorite too.
wealthy Penn state boosters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/jerry-sandusky-booster-sex-abuse-private-plane_n_1772564.html
A witness interviewed by federal authorities claims convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky and a Penn State booster sexually assaulted boys on a private plane, according to an exclusive RadarOnline report.
U.S. Postal Inspectors interviewed the witness after opening a new investigation into whether Sandusky shared child pornography.
The witness, who "has a strong tie to the booster he is accusing," claims that Sandusky and the fundraiser abused two boys on a private plane in Pennsylvania, the site reported. RadarOnline's unidentified source doesn't know whether the two boys are among Sandusky's previously identified victims.