This opinion piece was written in 2004, and doesn't have anywhere near current data.
I did note that my numbers were harder to quantify. To get an accurate percentage, we have to filter out priests who are in seclusion, in monasteries, or who in some other way have no public contact on a regular basis. If take into account the limited geographical locations where the vast majority of the transgressions occurred, you see would see a much higher net percentage of priests, in contact with the regular public, who have molested children: http://cara.georgetown.edu/bulletin/ 272,431 diocesan priests Of those, how many work in diocese have little to no access to children, due to population, or environmental restrictions, etc. Difficult to quantify, but not impossible, if we had all the numbers. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 8:28 am, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Number of priests against whom allegations have been substantiated (not > the > > total number actually who have committed said crimes: just under 4400. > So 4400 offenders in the past fifty years, Chris. They succumbed to > sin, to be sure. But according to your numbers, 4% of total population > are pedophiles, in comparison to 1.5% of priests. Our priests are far > more faithful to their vows, than the general population. A child is > far more likely to be molested by a public school teacher than a > priest, where "between 6 and 10% of children have been abused by a > public school teacher" according to http://bit.ly/a8JBIq . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<minds-eye%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
