Continually making excuses for priests.

I don't know about you...
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But I'm getting tired of hearing everyone repeat: pray for priests! pray for priests! pray for priests! every time one of them takes off with the collection plate or runs off with his personal trainer.  And if anyone dares discuss the guy's misbehavior, or tries to figure out how the jerk got away with what he did for so long,  they are condemned as if they committed a crime.
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Hey - does anyone remember what Corapi said during the peak of the priest scandal?  I can't remember the exact words, but he said something like, "Catholics" (presumably CINO ones - not his paying audience) "get the priests they deserve."  I heard it on EWTN.  But of course he always urged people to "Pray for priests."  It makes you look good when you say that.  I can say "Fr. So and So is a big fat manipulative lay-about, so we need to pray very much for him and pray for all priests."  It works.  It's a 'little bit of hypocrisy repeating'.
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But isn't 'pray for priests' covered by the 'pray for the conversion of sinners' intention? 
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I'm probably wrong, huh?  Although I'm pretty sure they - like ourselves - will be held accountable for their actions in the end - right? 
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Okay fine.  I'll keep praying for priests then.
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PRAY FOR PRIESTS! 
PRAY FOR PRIESTS!
PRAY FOR PRIESTS!
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There.

Fr. Wenthe back in the news.

Attorney for Christopher Wenthe will argue that the law governing clergy conduct is unconstitutional.

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You do what you have to do to stay out of jail. 
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Accused priest acted immorally, not illegally.
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Paul Engh, Wenthe's attorney, filed a motion arguing that the state law prohibiting a clergy member from having sex with a person who is seeking or receiving "religious or spiritual advice, aid, or comfort in private" is unconstitutional. In court records, the Ramsey County Attorney's Office said the law is constitutional and has been upheld by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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"Any minister who has sex with anybody may be in trouble under this statute," Engh said last week. "It's an overly broad attempt to regulate sexual behavior."
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Ramsey County prosecutors argued that the law criminalizes "exploitive, abusive behavior." Paul Gustafson, a spokesman for the Ramsey County attorney's office, declined to comment, citing the pending hearing.
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"Like statutes prohibiting sexual relationships between patients and doctors, therapists, counselors and social workers, the power imbalance created in the clergy-counselee relationship lies at the heart of criminalizing any sexual relationship that may develop," prosecutors wrote in a memorandum opposing Engh's motion. - StarTribune

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Photo: Chris Wenthe with another prey.
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H/T Natasha Fatale for the story.