[redgolum]

Stop emoting.

Yes, public schools have a huge problem. Sexual abuse by teachers and other students is very wide spread.

But that isn't the subject here. It is about issues with the Catholic hierarchy in the US dealing with pederast priest. Despite your defense of “Well, the Catholic church is not alone in hiding sexual assaults!”, that doesn't change the fact that there are still problems.

You are doing what so many do. Rather than confront the issue, you want to change the subject. If you want a thread about public school abuse, start one. You will have a lot comments that agree with you (if I see it, I will be one of those). That is not the topic of this thread, and your repeated attempts to pull it off topic and continue the denial of problem priests is not helping.

[Antoninus]

Yes, public schools have a huge problem. Sexual abuse by teachers and other students is very wide spread. But that isn't the subject here.

The subject here is "let's bash the Catholic Church." The fact is that the abuse rate among Catholic priests has dropped to almost nil since 2002 with only isolated incidents cropping up.

Now, we all know that sex abuse remains a huge problem in schools and other institutions, but nobody--and I mean nobody--in media or among the Church-haters on FR give a damn about it. If they did, you'd see article after article about in the media and posted on FR. That you don't tells you all you need to know--those harping on this issue with regard to Catholics have an agenda and that agenda has nothing to do with protecting children from abuse.