What a pathetic and ignorant comment.
The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused by clergy, church staff, volunteers or congregation members.
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 Cases a Year
Whoa - pathetic and ignorant?
I never made any comparison of the Catholic Church and it’s liability in this area compared to any other Church, Protestant or otherwise. I’d hardly be bragging about marginal differences between Churches on this count.
The church has revealed that there have been 13,000 credible accusations against Catholic clerics since 1950. ............... Our next door neighbor was compensated for her child, the child of one of the priests. It never made the news in the 50’s. I was groped by a young priest when I was about 11, and I wasn’t alone, same parish. (As kids during those days you didn’t report those things because you were afraid.) Another good looking priest who had the women parishioners swooning, donned black leather and a motorcycle and spent his evenings in the Village(NYC) and he wasn’t saving souls. Priests are human and have the same amount of hormones as anyone else. This whole thing about unmarried priests is going against human nature and nature in general. I believe it all started because they didn’t want to make priesthood a family business where father passed it on to his son(s) and thus creating a special class? I’m sure there are many married Catholic men who would make great Priests as many married men make great Rabbis, Ministers and Mullahs. I would think a family man as a priest would have a better outlook on life as he is responsible for the health, welfare, support and education of his family from when they are born until they die.