I would like to address two recent columns by Bill OReilly.OReilly considers Pope John Paul IIs dictatorial style of leadership to be the cause of the recent pedophile scandal. In his Easter Sunday editorial, he said that John Paul II stifled dissent. In a previous paragraph he demands that the church resurrect her moral teachings. I would like to pose a question to OReilly. What dissent do you think John Paul II has striven to stifle as you say? It is dissent from the churchs age-old moral teachings that reaffirm the eternal, divine, moral and natural law as proclaimed in the Bible. Pope John Paul II especially addressed this moral dissent in his papal encyclical Veritatis Splendor (1994) and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), in which he reaffirmed orthodox Catholic moral teaching.The Catholic church in America is undergoing a purification of her corrupt element. It will emerge from this as a much stronger and holy church. You see it in the recent graduates of Catholic seminaries, of which I am one.No Mr. OReilly, the Catholic church will not crumble. Jesus Christ proclaimed to Peter in Matthew 16:18 that on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.Jesus also told the apostles in Matthew 28:19 (of whom todays bishops are successors) that I will be with you all days until the end of the world. Recall also, Mr. OReilly, the words of St. Paul: Where sin abounds, grace even more abounds. The percentage of pedophile priests is estimated at about 1.8 percent. That leaves 98.2 percent of us as good and faithful servants working in the Lords vineyard.Fr. Louis Guardiola C.P.M.Russellville Fr. Guardiola is associate pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Russellville.