Paul & Pelican: "The problem of protecting paedophiles in the Catholic Church is a good example of where any mention of this issue will induce the labels of anti-Catholic no matter how awful the facts."
Pelican, I think the protecting of pedophiles by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church has more to do with their mistaken belief that it is more important to protect 'the good name of the church' than it is to prosecute a 'few' wrong doers within the organization, along with limiting any financial liability the business may incur.

I think that that is an entirely different subject.

Jayb,
>>There are a myriad of Legends about Jesus Christ & the exact Origins of Christianity. … But, how much of it is actually true & what is fable.<<

As I wrote before, I am rather skeptical about finding out “how much is actually true” on this OLO. However, it occurred to me that if you are genuinely interested you might find some answers in Rodney Stark’s “The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion” (HarperOne, 2011).

Paul and Jayb
It is about protecting the good name of the Church but like politicians, government and bureaucrats surely the lessons have been learned that deception does more damage long term than when dealing with issues immediately and without prevarication in the short term

Jayb, you're wrong. There's more than a mere "few" pedophile priests, preachers and pastors.

Thousands of prosecutions have been launched the world over. And they are just the miniscule percentage that actually ever get to court.

Not just the Churches, but Christians themselves need to take responsibility for the entrenched culture of pedophilia within much of the clergy over the past several hundreds of years. It's one of the evils within Christianity, and they've only been acting to prevent it since Christianity was finally outed publicly over the issue. If it was still possible for them to keep it hidden, guess what? They'd STILL be trying to hide it, and STILL overtly protecting these Christian criminal child abusers.

Pelican,Diamond Pete & Paul, if you want to discuss Paedophilia within the various religious bodies I'd be happy to do so. Not in this Forum. Get your own.

This Forum is "The Origins & Peculiarities of the Christian Religion." That means the History & Development of the Common Monotheistic Religions that eventuated in Christianity.

OK

ABC News yesterday
"The Catholic Church has rejected Victoria Police allegations that it protected suspected pedophile priests by moving them to different parishes."

Pelican said "that deception does more damage long term than when dealing with issues immediately and without prevarication in the short term"
I totally agree with what you said, but like the criminal they are the Catholic Church will, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, act in denial to the bitter end. All in the vain hope of "limiting the damage."