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To: father_elijah
No doubt this article will be avoided entirely by the Usual Suspects hawking married priests and eschewing celibacy as they bash the Church.

Even in the midst of the Catholic Church's current scandals – including decades-old cases – the Catholic clergy has about the same percentage of perverts as the Yale faculty. There are more than 45,000 priests in America and, so far, 55 exposed abusers. There are 836 tenured professors at Yale, and one proved child molester – convicted just last month.

That's still a higher percentage than the Boy Scouts, but the point is: It's not going to be easy to blame celibacy.

The Yale reference is a nice touch ... =)
6 posted on 03/20/2002 5:33:27 PM PST by Askel5
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To: Askel5
Even in the midst of the Catholic Church's current scandals – including decades-old cases – the Catholic clergy has about the same percentage of perverts as the Yale faculty. There are more than 45,000 priests in America and, so far, 55 exposed abusers. There are 836 tenured professors at Yale, and one proved child molester – convicted just last month.

How many at Harvard?

12 posted on 03/20/2002 5:38:47 PM PST by rllngrk33
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