Actually, the Catholic Church officials were being kind. The actual statistics are that abuse of children by Protestant Clergy abuse children is more than three times more prevalent and inappropriate sexual contact with parishioners of all types is over ten times more prevalent. This would imply that those who feel free to engage in sexual activity should NEVER be allowed to become clergy.
Your statistics are wrong, but typical of what has been being repeated here in “defense” of Priests abusing children.
Just because someone in power says something, doesn’t make it true. And even if you believe the citing of unnamed studies, the actual citations weren’t what you are repeating, they were misunderstood and misreported multiple times here.
I’m not in any way saying these numbers are correct, but here are the numbers as reported from the “sources in power”. 10% - Total sexual “impropriety” reported by some study amongst ALL clergy that identified as “protestant”. Sexual impropriety was not defined in the reports (probably was in the study that nobody has cited), but could include looking at naked pictures on the web, hardly the kind of “sexual abuse” we are talking about here.
When it came to actual sexual abuse of children, the Church sources spreading these numbers seem to say that Catholic abuse was 1.5-1.8%, and Protestant was between 2.0 and 2.5%.
Again, no citation of a source for this “protestant” information. And comparing “protestant”, which is a general category of hundreds of denominations and uncounted churches, to a single specific denomination, is absurd.
But even if you accept the unverified numbers, the protestant abuse is less than 20% more, or at most less then twice, the number for Priests.
When talking about Protestant self-identified “sexual impropriety”, remember that President Jimmy Carter confessed to sexual impropriety, admitting he had lusted after women in his heart. It’s hardly the same thing as having sex with boys.