Note that these statements pertain to the US.
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Why only the US?
Are these not scandals in other countries, or is it okay to be a pedo in other countries?
Just wondering.
“Children are far safer with priests than with the average person.”
That seems so very obvious and I’m not even Catholic.
Of course, none of this will make a difference to the loyal Marxist population. They are looking for any excuse (even a bad one) to blame the church and God for all the world’s problems and elevate human government to divinity.
Thanks for the info.
**7. Child sexual abuse is “profoundly prevalent” throughout society, John Jay College of Criminal Justice researcher Margaret Leland Smith told Newsweek on April 8. “The sexual abuse of boys is common, underreported, underrecognized, and undertreated,” an American Medical Association report has concluded.
8. Children are far safer with priests than with the average person. According to Dr. Garth Rattray in The Gleaner (2002), “About 85% of abusers are family members, babysitters, neighbors or friends.”
9. Adult-adolescent sexual encounters (ephebophilia) account for 90% of all priest-minor interaction; encounters with children under 13 years old (pedophilia) account for only 10%. Of these, worldwide, approximately 60% are homosexual encounters and 30% are heterosexual. In the United States, 81% of victims are male, and 19% are female.&&
Good to see facts like this come out.
While the Left imagines they can destroy the Church with this, the fact is that it is the lurching of the Catholic Church to the left following the Vatican II that is condemned by the scandal mongers. A more conservative Church is emerging from this crucible. Glory be to God.
Statistically unsound, I fear. There are far more "family members, babysitters, neighbours or friends" than there are priests. Children spend far more time with them than with priests. The correct question is, given the same number of opportunities for abuse, would priests commit abuse more or less often that the others? I don't know the answer, and will not engage in wild and disgraceful speculation.