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Sotomayer is Catholic, and this suit was brought by Catholic organizations.

percentages of abuse amongst priests is disturbingly high compared to other professions

Source? Studies? Numbers?

It's actually lower from what I've read. Kids are much more likely to be abused by family members or teachers.

Pri. Mary.

As in the drawn out Democratic primary last year, which went on months after McCain had the Republican nomination sewn up. Of course the press would have talked about Obama more than McCain last year.

Two other parts you conveniently fail to mention: the two months of non-stop concern trolling Obama faced over Rev. Wright and "white working class voters", and how the press bent over backwards to ignore McCain's incompetence and flip flopping.

McCain, with all his supposed foreign policy experience, confused Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis six times, and kept (falsely) claiming that Shiite Iran was training Sunni Al Queda agents. The media would have torn Obama half a dozen new assholes over this, but CBS went so far as to edit the video to cover up for McCain.

And what if Obama had mistakenly called Petraus the chair of the joint chiefs. Opps, new asshole. Or if he talked about the Iraq-Afghanistan border. Whoops, another asshole. Or if Obama had sought the endorsement of John Hagee, who had previously called the Catholic Church "the great whore", a "false belief system", an "apostate church", and that it would be "devoured by the anti-Christ".

Anyone who whines that Obama recieved favorable media coverage next to McCain needs to to drink a nice, warm cup of STFU.

It has been tried as far back as 2002 with little to no success. The US Federal Courts set a very high standard when it comes to tagging an organization with RICO. Even the mob managed to get out from under a prosecution or two because it did not met the strict standard. Likely, neither will this but it gets the issue/complaint out into the media and the publicity/attention is what the plaintiffs are looking for.

What is the Catholic League?
The Catholic League is the nations largest Catholic civil rights organization. Founded in 1973 by the late Father Virgil C. Blum, S.J., the Catholic League defends the right of Catholics lay and clergy alike to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination.

Motivated by the letter and the spirit of the First Amendment, the Catholic League works to safeguard both the religious freedom rights and the free speech rights of Catholics whenever and wherever they are threatened.

Ah, so being "raised Catholic" gives credibility when criticizing the Pope. This is nonsense. The Pope repeatedly made firm and unequivocal condemnations of what Hitler was doing well before the war even started. For starters, you might want to read this.

There's no secret and no surprise in the fact that certain people with an anti-Catholic agenda will smear the Chruch every chance they can get. Just because someone publishes a book doesn't make it true. If you actually go back and look what was going on at the time and what was being saif about the Pope at the time, no one even considered that the Pope was somehow "turning a blind eye" to Hitler. It was only decades later that people with other agendas started to try to tarnish Pius's image.

Furthermore, I suggest you read up on Papal infallibility, since you (or the author, it's not clear from your sentence) have no idea what you're talking about. There have been books written that dispute the Holocaust even happened. Do you believe them too?