Why It's So Hard to Get Rid of Pedophile Priests

Priests have both prostate and prostrate glands.

Men spend approximately eight years in seminary school learning how to be priests. After their successful completion of the course of study, they are ordained by a bishop.

Priests can do all sorts of magical things not unlike village shamans. They can change bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. They can forgive sins. They are intermediaries between the laity and God Himself.

There have always been evil men who became evil priests or even evil Popes. Until modern times it was pretty easy to keep all the nasty little secrets tucked away in the Church. The idea that priests must also answer to an earthly law is also something new. The Vatican hasn't been able to acknowledge that fact and is still fighting it tooth and nail.

If they do, it strips away some of the magical quality of the priesthood; the idea that they might just be mere mortals.

It also calls into question the whole process of becoming a priest. Surely being under scrutiny for almost a decade would reveal something of the evil that lurks within? If not, why not?

So pretending that all is well protects the whole illusion of what religion has to offer. Now that the facade's being chipped away, can the tenets of Catholicism be far behind?