Pedophile Priests, Ephebophilia, and Facing Facts

You've probably heard about those pedophile priests. What some priests have done over the last half-century was very bad. It hurt innocent people. It was not good.

That said, I'm not going to leave the Catholic Church because a few guys had zipper issues.

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