Tim Minchin said it best.

Played this for a coworker who's agressively Catholic. He was not amused. So, i hit him with the ol' Bill Hicks: " forgive me." He was very not amused. 5/7, would repeat.

They could drop the priest celibacy rule, seeing as now there's a system in place to prevent priests from passing on land to their heirs instead of to the church (because they never take ownership of the church land like they did in older times). Then the priests could have relationships with equals (if that's even possible with the cult aspect, though still better if it's with adults rather than kids) to address their hormones and loneliness.

The church administration owes both the priests and communities an apology over that BS, all done in the first place because of institutional greed and lust for power. Though that might require admitting that they just make shit up on the religion side to justify policies made for the business side.

Note that saying the priests are owed an apology doesn't shift any blame for the actions that some of them did. It's placing extra blame for the system itself on the church, which also caused suffering for the priests that didn't decide to do fucked up things to kids they had power over.

Yes , so as in the Roman period but the pope is American , and unless he can track his family record 600 years in behind it is unlikely the any of them were slaves

I mean come on , white slaves ? in the new world ?