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To: Maelstorm

You could probably make similar statistical cases for a lot of subgroups - catholic priests, childhood molestation victims, bald straight men, fat straight men, straight men into S&M, etc.


8 posted on 05/26/2009 3:14:38 PM PDT by PC99
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To: PC99

I found this:

Pedophilia (the sexual abuse of a prepubescent child) among priests is extremely rare, affecting only 0.3% of the entire population of clergy. This figure, cited in the book Pedophiles and Priests by non-Catholic scholar, Philip Jenkins, is from the most comprehensive study to date, which found that only one out of 2,252 priests considered over a thirty-year period was afflicted with pedophilia.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0011.html


15 posted on 05/26/2009 3:24:10 PM PDT by donna (Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008; total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%)
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To: PC99

The number of Catholic Priests involved in sexual abuse cases is less than 5% of the total number of Priests.

I wish, however, that the Church had the same policy as the Boy Scouts.

The Church goes to court for letting homosexuals into the Priesthood.

The Boy Scouts go to court for keeping homosexuals out.


38 posted on 05/26/2009 5:07:48 PM PDT by Kansas58
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