[Gurn]

I’m no fan of Bill Maher. But Donohue is splitting hairs. The Roman Church has still not come clean on the issue of sodomizing young boys. And it is an objective fact that priests were moved from parish to parish — by the Roman Church hierarch — when said priests were known to have sodomized little boys.

[Jeff Chandler]

But Donohue is splitting hairs. ...priests were moved from parish to parish — by the Roman Church hierarch — when said priests were known to have sodomized little boys.

In the first place, almost all of the sodomizing was done by fag priests with teenage boys. And it was the American bishops who covered it up-not the Pope.

Accusing the Pope for the problem is like accusing Bush for Abu Graibe-gratifying for the haters but ultimately dishonest.

[kellynla]

“The Roman Church has still not come clean on the issue of sodomizing young boys?”

Well then you have apparently not been paying attention.

It has been well documented and publicized that the Roman CATHOLIC church was led to believe by psychologists that these priests could be rehabilitated.

Once it was realized that such “rehabilitation” was not to be. The Roman CATHOLIC church proceeded to remove these priests.

In the future, I suggest you “google” before you make false accusations.

dyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[big'ol_freeper]

What is a “Roman Church”?

And sodomizing little boys. Where are you getting that from? Do you know what false witness is? Because making false and misleading statements is a form of false witness.

[kellynla]

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned a survey of Roman Catholic church records of abusive clergy, to be completed by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The survey is one component of the Dallas Charter, a plan developed by the bishops in 2002 to respond to allegations of widespread child abuse by priests, and of extensive cover-ups by the church. CNN.com obtained a draft copy of the report and posted a summary on their web site on 2004-FEB-17. 1 The final version was released on 2004-FEB-27.

Some of the raw data contained in the report:

Years covered: 1950 to 2002.
Percentage of bishops who provided information: 97% 3
Total number of allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests: 11,000. Number substantiated: 6,700 (61%).
Number unsubstantiated: 1,000 (9.1%).
Number which were not investigated because the allegations were made after the priest’s death: 3,300.

Number of priests who served during the interval: 110,000. Number of priests alleged to have abused children: 4,450.
Percentage of abusive priests: 4.0%

Number of priests who are currently serving: 44,000
Number of cases of abuse per priest:
Most priests were accused of a single event
1,112 priests (25.0%) had two or three allegations
578 priests (13%) had four to nine allegations.
133 priests (2.9%) had ten or more allegations.

Age of the victims:
Almost 6% were 7 years of age or younger.
16% were 8,9 or 10 years old.
78% were 11 to 17 years old.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/clergy_sex20.htm

[Antoninus]

The Roman Church has still not come clean on the issue of sodomizing young boys.

Yes, by homosexual priests who never should have been ordained to begin with. They were ordained and supported by homo-coddling bishops who have been defying Rome for decades on this and other issues.

Blaming the Vatican for the homo-abuse crisis is like blaming Churchill for starting WWII.