I have commented on each of these threads as they distressingly continue to crop up.
My belief, based on experience, is the two aspects of the unnatural lives that priests, and nuns, lead.
Firstly, because they do not live the normal lives that would enable them to develop the experience and empathy of human relationships, they remain arrested adolescents, they don't mature properly, they don't understand familial relationships, because they are denied to them.
The second problem is the utter reverence with which catholic priests are regarded.
They are surrounded by people, who to varying degrees, and some of them are seriously delusional, regard them as an incarnation of God himself, and as such, they can simply do no wrong.
That is a lethal combination - a man with no access to the normal comforts of a loving relationship, and a power complex, makes fertile ground for the paedophile.
Add the catholic church's wilful determination to avoid acknowledging that they have a massive problem, far less confront and start to deal with it, and the whole horrible situation perpetuates itself and will continue, until someone at the top decides to change.
But of course, like any major organisation, in order to reach a position where you can actually change things, you have already had to prove that you are perfectly happy with the way things are.
Boat rockers do not rise, they stay at a low level, or they are forced out, they never come near to anywhere where they can actually do something.
And so we go on.
As an atheist, I have no problem accepting that a proportion of priests are paedophiles, the difficulty is, the people who do need to accept it are raised in conditions where questioning and changing are simply not countenanced.
I don;t know what the answer is - well, I do, but i can;t see a way that it would ever happen.
A pope who understands what abuse is, and is determined to do something about it.
I can't see that ever happening.