It seems to me that the Church is suffering from a crisis of chastity.

It is not just the [[sins of priests|sins, crimes, and stupidity of the ordained]] (though I do not want to minimize anything about these grotesque evils); the Church is also suffering from:
  * priests and religious behaving unchastely;
  * priests and religious abandoning the vowed life;
  * the unchaste behavior of the unmarried; 
  * the conception and murder of unwanted children;
  * the willingness to commit adultery with and without benefit of divorce;
  * the use of artificial methods of contraception in marriage;
  * adoption and promotion of the gay and lesbian agenda; 
  * indulgence in pornography and solitary sexual sins.

Although I think the call for a new Inquisition or the restoration of witch hunts is wrong-headed, those who condemn the sins of the ordained are at the very least upholding the **principle of chastity**: //we can and should restrain our sexual impulses for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors, and for love of ourselves//.  It does not matter how strong the temptations were or how intense the urges were that the priests felt to abuse their victims; disordered desires can never justify sin.  It is also laudable to see our critics' zeal to see justice done.  Our culture could use a little more shame about our shameful behavior.

No one is going to get away with these crimes.  God is a just judge!
 
The innocent will be rewarded and the guilty made to pay in full.

====== An infection that weakens the body ======
Lust is not a small sin.

It corrupts us from the inside out.

The family is the building block of society; lust dissolves the family ties on which our culture depends.

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Prurience is make-believe chastity.  We indulge in lust under cover of condemning it.

We need to be won to a vision of God's beauty.  This is not will-power Christianity, though it does require our cooperation with grace.