You completely missed the point of putting “accused” in quotes.
It was not to diminish that there were accused men in the Church, but to point out that they were ACCUSED, not proven to be guilty, whereas the previously mention info states that every school district in the country is LIKELY to have an abuser working there right NOW.
So, some priests were accused, and were innocent, but EVERY school district in the USA is likely to have an abuser there right now.
You wrote: “Obviously written by a Roman Catholic apologist”
And only an anti-Catholic like you could have screwed up something so obvious.
; - )
People judge us by the words we use. I wonder if Gamecock has ever considered the impression he makes on lurkers to these threads, by his anti-Catholic comments and rhetoric.
Sounds like you are trying to "interpret" what the author's intent was.
Accused means just that, accused. It doesn't need quotation marks to highlight the use of the word, unless there is now a new class of "accused" in the criminal justice system.