"gross perversion" "Most of Ridsdale victims appeared to be boys."
runner, why mention gross perversion, and the victims of Fr. Ridsdale being boys? Is it you would not find it gross perversion if Fr. Ridsdale victims had been girls. Interesting!
This Fr Ridsdale, it has been reported was known to deliver sermons from the pulpit bemoaning homosexuality. Also interesting.

//Another problem with teenage boys in skirts is the eternal Unpredictable Protuberance, that would clearly be visible in a skirt//

That is what sporrans are for.

The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church knows no bounds. The 2015 pastoral letter from the Catholic Bishops of Australia to all Australians on the 'same-sex marriage' debate" carried the slogan "don't mess with marriage".
MESS is the operative word, as this bunch (Catholic Bishops of Australia) turns a blind eye as their clergy rampantly MESS with children. The Catholics are not alone in this, as other Christian denominations have been just as hypocritical, although the Catholic Church seems to excel at hypocrisy on most moral issues.

Paul,

There you are again bashing the Catholic Church. I find interesting that you focus continually on decades old instances in this sector and ignore the vastly greater incidences in Aboriginal communities for example in just one small town:

"Child sex abuse is so “normal” in and around the small Pilbara town of Roebourne that even jailing known paedophiles is not enough to end it. 39km north of the iron ore hub of Karratha, amid a police operation that has identified 184 child-sex victims in and near the town that is home to just 1410 people. So far police have charged 36 men, and they have 124 suspects. The operation is ­expected to run for another year."

In fact, the restrictive welfare debit card that quarantines 80% of welfare payments from booze drugs and gambling that has been so successful in reducing alcohol related violence and sexual attacks has been deemed racist by the Greens who want to block it being rolled out to other troubled communities.

I think that the Greens are not only being wildly hypocritical but a little racist too.

Shadow, I deplore all instances of child sex abuse. A pedophile is a pedophile whether he is black, white or a Catholic priest. I am not aware of any particular official stance being taken by Aboriginal organizations on same sex marriage, unlike the Catholic Church which has adopted an official position.

It is typical of the apologist to point to another evil in an attempt to mitigate the fore-mentioned evil. The apoligiest will say; "Yes... um... ah... its bad about those Catholic priests, but ah... um... what about those Aboriginal pedophiles." The inference is the second evil, lessens the impact of the first evil, even though the two are not related. Nice try Shadow.

On your opening remark, "There you are again bashing the Catholic Church. I find interesting that you focus continually on decades old instances in this sector"

Bashing the Catholic Church, yes and they have supplied a very big club to bash them with. "decades old" we can assume it is still going on, as the Church has not put into place any mechanisms to ensure its not. Old priests are still free in parishes in Sydney to wonder around school playgrounds, unrestrained. The Catholic Church admits on it own doctored conservative figure, 7% of its clergy in Australia are pedophiles.

On the "Welfare Card", sounds good at first glance, and many will aplord

Shadow, a crack down on welfare fraud is welcomed and overdue, but it has to be a genuine and honest attempt, and not some sort of political grandstanding by an unpopular government, which this appears to be. A "Welfare Card" where necessary, I'm all for it.