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To: Natural Law

3 posted on 03/20/2010 9:48:17 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Snarky quips and cartoons to not trump fact. What differentiates the Catholic Church from the Protest denominations on this issue is that the Catholic Church has been open and aggressive is dealing with the problem. Non-Catholic Churches and institutions continue to deny and hide behind confidential settlement agreements and malpractice insurance policy firewalls. Further Store Front Churches and minuscule denominations with no measurable assets do not attract belated claims of abuse.

There have been 15,000 documented allegations against the entire Catholic Church over the last 40 years. The data from the Church indicates that only 40% of those had any merit. The numbers also includes those who claim physical abuse for things such as having Sister Mary-Whatever slap their knuckles.

Granted that 6,000 cases is a terrible number it comes from a population of over 1.5 billion Catholics over the last 40 years. That means that less than 0.0005% of all Catholics were abused. Catholics have a greater probability of getting killed by lightening strikes. In fact your kids are 1000 times more likely to die in an auto accident than be molested by a priest, but I bet you don’t hesitate to load them in the car multiple times each week. Compare that number to any other institution and it is an impressive statistic where fallible humans are involved.


5 posted on 03/20/2010 9:56:37 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: JoeProBono
Pedophile priests are very rare.
However,homosexual priests with a homosexual version of Lolita infatuation,meaning evil perverted predators who crave pubescent flesh of the same sex,are damn near ubiquitous.
As they are in all target rich environments that cater to liberal Democrats.
12 posted on 03/20/2010 10:18:55 AM PDT by Happy Rain ( "Tyranny's End In 2010--Delivered From Hell In 2012!")
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