One priest molesting a child was one too many. There were far more than one.
And there remains the issue of the way church authorities dealt with abusers. And the fact that they generally neglected to inform the appropriate civil authorities. Allan, you're arguing the wrong issues. Francis On 27 Mrz., 22:51, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, see the report on educator sexual abuse commissioned by the US > Department of Education > athttp://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf > quoted in that piece. The numbers show far more children are sexually > abused by public school educators than by priests. > > On Mar 27, 2:33 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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 tohttp://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%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > > .com> > > > . > > > 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.
