The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that "available research" showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.
He also quoted statistics from the Christian Scientist Monitor newspaper to show that most US churches being hit by child sex abuse allegations were Protestant and that sexual abuse within Jewish communities was common....
....The Holy See launched its counter–attack after an international representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, Keith Porteous Wood, accused it of covering up child abuse and being in breach of several articles under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
at least you don’t find instances of sex abuse in islam.....ahem.....
this is read meat for the anti-media.
Doesn’t matter the left only finds sexual abuse to be a Christianity problem...evidenced by Roman Polansky and other religions being free to rape/abuse
I don't know why he has to attack Jews and Protestants but since Protestants are more than 75% of the Christian population in America including almost all of the 13% of the population that is black I hope that they account for more problems than the Catholics and I really wonder if the problem is "common" in the Jewish community.
Is it really appropriate for those foreign people in Italy to be launching such an attack against American Jews and Protestants?
No offense but that sounds like an excuse my teenager would give me.
Oh, well that makes it okay then.
Disgusting.
I’m confused, their not pedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males? OK I guess its pre-pubescent versus adolescent. Its all sick, is all wrong, the church denomination, gender, pre-pubery, post-puberty etc is irrelevant. It saddens me that “spirtual leaders” are pointing their fingers saying look they are just as bad or worse. “Only 1.5-5% of Catholic Clergy were involved in child sex abuse” The hearts and souls of our children are not percentages or statistics. How many children have not received Christ or have turned away from God because of the abuses that happened to them at “church” whether Catholic, Baptist, Luthern whatever denomination. The Church of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ should and must be first and formost a sanctuary for the children in our society
Shame on any church that doesn’t look the world in the eye when this happens in their church and take full responsibility and accountability. Pointing fingers, statistics and presenting statistics is for politicans not the Church of Jesus Christ our Priest, our King, our Savior!
How about among worshipers of the obamassiah? Oh, wait, it’s not abuse among them, it’s the way they would have us all behave.
We have been saying this for years, but no one believed us.
First, I do wonder if this is reported correctly.
Second, saying “Well all the other guys are doing it!” is not a defense. In many ways it means you have no defense.
In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to sex with adolescent males.
It seems to me that forbidding homosexuals from becoming priests would pretty much solve the problem, no?