The best Catholics can come up with is "others do it too" and you think those "statistics" make the abuses in the Catholic Church somehow less egregious? I've got news for you. I'm not affiliated in any way to any of those churches nor would I be. I certainly wouldn't stay in any church that doesn't evict those pedophiles.
-— The best Catholics can come up with is “others do it too” and you think those “statistics” make the abuses in the Catholic Church somehow less egregious? -—
According to the John Jay report, the abuse rate for priests is 1-2%, ministers 2-3%, government school teachers, 5-10%.
The Catholic Church has instituted a comprehensive screening program worldwide. What has your church done, and other Protestant churches? What about government schools?
To me, instituting comprehensive screening is more significant than commenting that “child sexual abuse is bad” on web sites.
Most people don’t consider that position or effort remarkable.
Well, I do belong to one of those churches, and still value my faith, and live by it, but when that church left me, by forcing the parishioners, rather than the criminals to pay the price for their crimes, I was out of there...
"The best I can come up with"...That's an odd way of putting it. Many FR Protestants take a perverse delight in abuses that occur in the Catholic Church, and point to it as evidence that the Catholic Church is foul and corrupt. It just doesn't fit the narrative certain people love to spout that abuse occurs more in Protestant Churches, does it?
and here I thought that churches were places where people who were sinners went to seek God....silly me!