I haven’t settled for hundreds of millions of dollars for diddling small children. Look to your Jesuits for their sins.
Your snide remark wasn’t even germaine to the conversation.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. When the media came down hard and fast on the Catholic Church, it was the greatest blessing. It forced the Catholic Church to address a horrific crime. Those priests who were found guilty, were removed from the priesthood and, in certain instances, incarcerated. As a result, the Catholic Church has implemented a comprehensive program to prevent this from ever happening again. This includes background checks on ALL who come in contact with children.
Meanwhile, sexual abuse of minors continues unabated in the schools, camps and non-Catholic denominations.
The figures released to The Associated Press offer a glimpse into what has long been an extremely difficult phenomenon to pin down — the frequency of sex abuse in Protestant congregations.
Religious groups and victims' supporters have been keenly interested in the figure ever since the Roman Catholic sex abuse crisis hit five years ago. The church has revealed that there have been 13,000 credible accusations against Catholic clerics since 1950.
Protestant numbers have been harder to come by and are sketchier because the denominations are less centralized than the Catholic church; indeed, many congregations are independent, which makes reporting even more difficult.
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse a Year
If you are seriously concerned about ministers "diddling with small children", I suggest you organize a crusade against the Protestant, Jewish and Muslim clerics. Actions speak louder than words.