Again, your first source compares the misnamed pedophilia as “2-3%” for protestant, and “.2-1.7%” for catholics.
Your 10% pedophilia number was a mistake in reading on your part.
The ranges are in the guessed values, and no evidence is given to support any particular value in the range, so even by the biased Catholic source, it could be that the Protestant number is 2%, and the Catholic number is 1.7%, hardly a difference.
And remember, we KNOW who the “Catholic Church” is, they are a well-defined, heirarchical, highly controlled church structure, with Priests who are supposedly highly vetted and monitored.
Among “protestant churches” are hundreds of denominations and independent groups, some KNOWN to not really be particularly faithful to the teachings of the Bible, or even Christian for that matter (for example, unitarian universalists are considered “protestant”).
Let’s see a comparison between the Catholic Church, and the Presbyterian-PCA church. I don’t think you’d like that one. Trying to defend your specific church by smearing MY specific church by citing statistics that are likely driven by churches I have nothing to do with is silly.
Did I mistakenly read it ? Go to this website for instance:
http://www.aboutcatholics.com/faith_beliefs/church_holy/
Here is the quote:
“1.7% of Catholic priests have been found guilty of pedophilia. This number compares to about 3% of the general public and an alarming figure of nearly 10% among protestant ministers.*”
*This according to Penn State historian Phillip Jenkins.
NOTE: I think they’re misquoting Mr. Jenkins here, but I cite the above website to inform you that I was SENT an e-mail that used Jenkins as their source.