From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> At 08:03 PM 5/20/2002 -0600 Michael Harney wrote:
> >> Is it the Catholic Church that thinks I'm some sort of priest of
theirs?
> >
> >I would try to disassociate myself from Catholic Priests at the moment if
I
> >were you... there seems to be some sort of scandal going on right now.
>
> Ahem!
>
> Do you mean to say that a Catholic Priest is more likely to commit a
> scandal than any other member of our civilization?
>
> JDG

Did I say that?  No, I said there is a scandal going on *right now* that
envolves Catholic Priests.

To cause a scandel, though, the behavior has to be newsworthy.  For some
reason, a pedophile priest or teacher is considered more newsworthy than a
pedophile in some other line of work.  By that line of reasoning, yes,
Catholic priests are more likely to be part of a scandal even if the
incidents of pedophiles in the priesthood is lower than the incidents of
pedophiles in the general population.

Michael Harney
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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