Mr. Weitzel, 
 
First, you don't sound very much like a reporter when characterizing someone like the Pope as "rabid" and comparing him to a dog. 
 
And second, I really wish your report included some perspective on the whole situation. I mean, you wrote there were 4,392 priests accused of various sex crimes on children over a 52 year period. How many priests lived in the U.S. over those 52 years, and how much of the population were they, as priests and as sex offenders? In other words, were the number of crimes by priests a majority or minority of the child sex crimes over those 52 years, and are the number of sex offender priests the same as a percentage of the population and of the priesthood? In other words, does the priesthood have a larger or smaller percentage of sex offenders than the general population? 
 
Now this is information a real news man would provide, in order to put things into perspective. I mean, as realists, just because people go through the seminary and become priests, are we to assume that these people are no longer Human beings with flaws? I know there are people who believe that somehow pedophiles got together and decided to enter the preiesthood to prey on children, or that the Catholic Church intentionally recruited pedophiles. So let's see the numbers and let the truth speak. 
 
I'm not saying the crimes weren't horrible. What I'm saying is that if we're going to fix the problem we need to analyze it and have the facts and the perspective.