[DennisR]

My guess is that there is more of this in the Catholic church than in Protestant churches, but less than that in the general population. The Catholic church does not necessarily adhere to Scripture as their one source of authority. Too many traditions for that to happen. So that opens things up for certain types of behavior to creep into the Catholic church. Not all Protestant churches hold scripture as their only source of authority, either, but the percentage that do is probably decently high. Also, since the general population includes people who have little consciousness of Biblical values, there will be a higher incidence of this behavior there. This is just common sense. My opinion. Maybe someone has statistics, but I normally do not trust statistics since they can be easily twisted.

[big'ol_freeper]

See link in #22.

[RobbyS]

The problem is not the teaching of the Catholic Church but the infidelity of many priests--and not just pedophiles and not just about sex--to those teachings. We have read what Paul said in Romans about this matter.

[Hila]

You're right, where there is less adherence to the Scriptures, there is greater multitude of sin. The Roman church has soooo much to account to before the One True Holy Father.

[peteram]

The Catholic church does not necessarily adhere to Scripture as their one source of authority

Do you have data to back up this statement? (And I don't mean the slanted jibberish that the lamestream press puts out either)

[pgkdan]

The Catholic church does not necessarily adhere to Scripture as their one source of authority. Too many traditions for that to happen.

Yes, and many of those traditions are hundreds of years older than the Bible. The Catholic Church was around for 400 years before the Canon of Athanasius was recognized as the New Testament.