We later came to discover that performance enhancing drugs were also part of the equation, but the moral outrage over them has drowned out all other factors.

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Contributing factors to the crisis can include inadequate procedures for determining suitable priesthood candidates, insufficient moral and spiritual formation in seminaries, and "misplaced concern for the reputation of the church and the avoidance of scandal, " the pope said.

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