4 percent of the priests have been guilty of this type of misconduct, most done during the 60s and 70s.
96 percent of the priests have not ever done anything scandalously wrong.
96 per cent of the men do their job, and yet people who say things like this seem to want to throw away the 96 percent and act like the whole church is manned only by the 4 percent.
What an unbalanced, uncharitable worldview.
You might think me uncharitable, and perhaps only four percent of priest are sexual criminals (misconduct? please), but the facts are that this continued for years and was enabled by RC church leadership well past the 60's and 70's.
If you think that this scandal has not affected the perception of the RC church and of priests being viewed as conduits to God you really need to take a reality pill.