Alex Murphy has kindly provided evidence proving that idiotic statistic is backwards. Actually, our own lying eyes line up with the real statistics found here...
In short, any raw numbers (i.e. "x number of claims filed per year") are meaningless. What's more telling is the percentage of the abusers out of the whole, and in that regard, the Catholic Church is far sicker than the "Protestant" Church. In that regard, the John Jay Study is positively damning."... The John Jay Study (see threads here, here, and outside coverage here) - commissioned by the U.S. Catholic Bishops' National Review Board itself - found that the number of Catholic priest abusers equalled four percent of the entire Catholic priest population. The John Jay study's findings are more than conclusive - they're exhaustive of the entire US population of Catholic priests. Now by comparison, every study I've been shown of "Protestant" abuse included volunteers and laypersons, something the John Jay Study did not cover among Catholic parishes; if we exclude them from the "Protestant" studies (to create a "pastor vs priest" apple-to-apple comparison), we arrive at a roughly 1% abuse rate for all "Protestant" pastors, or (in other words) at least a four times greater likelihood that any given Catholic priest will be a sexual predator as compared to any given "Protestant" pastor. And that's according to the numbers and studies that Catholics keep telling me about.
The bottom line is that the Roman Catholic church is littered with pedophile priests, and apparently, that suits Rome just fine. If it didn't, Ratzinger (who before he was pope, was in charge of the Office of the Inquisition from 1981 to 2005, tasked with covering up the sex abuse scandals) would have done something substantial to rid the church of these criminals who destroy children, families, communities and churches.
But he didn't. Instead he reiterated the threat of excommunication for anyone who went outside the church to a lawyer, a police officer, a parent or a teacher with these accusations.
Ratzinger was accused in court of an illegal cover-up and the only way he stayed out of jail was to plead diplomatic immunity.
Ratzinger a victim? lol. Only in Oz.
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