Married priests are long overdue in the Catholic Church. .................. Could mean that the altar boys will be a bit safer too.
Has there ever been a study comparing the married priests of th Eastern Rite Churches with the non-married clergy of the Roman Rite?
Ought to save the Archdiocese a ton on insurance too.
This remark is uncalled for
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