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I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.