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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's been a trope since at least the 1500s that clergy are pedos, "Julius Excluded from Heaven" by Erasmus contains this exchange between Saint Peter and the recently deceased pope Julius:

PETER: [... ] I hope it won't be too tiresome for you to answer a few clumsy questions about the details. Who, for example, are these little curly-headed striplings? JULIUS: I brought them up for my diversion.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090326073147/www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/lansing/classes/hist4b/materials/Week7.pdf

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Yes but statistics indicate priests are not more likely to be pedophiles than any other profession that works regularly with children.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The problem with the catholic church isn't just that a lot of preists are predators, it's that the church covered up these crimes and moved preists to new places where they could continue being predators

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