To: Alex Murphy
The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that "available research" showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.
So how does the (upper limit) number of 5% translate into absolute numbers please? Is this "only" 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 or even more? Downplaying absolute numbers (if such is the case) by citing relative numbers (percentages) would be absolutely reprehensible, IMHO (but the usual MO of liars-by-numbers of all colors....).
Where's the 'meat' (no pun intended!)? How many Catholic clergy are there, the world over? (And the mention of 'only' 1 in 20 seems bizarre all by itself...)
44 posted on
09/29/2009 1:04:01 PM PDT by
Moltke
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45 posted on
09/29/2009 1:10:18 PM PDT by
Pope Pius XII
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To: Moltke
So how does the (upper limit) number of 5% translate into absolute numbers please? Is this "only" 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 or even more? Downplaying absolute numbers (if such is the case) by citing relative numbers (percentages) would be absolutely reprehensible, IMHO (but the usual MO of liars-by-numbers of all colors....). At it's apex, the USCCB's John Jay Study reported that 4% of all (US) priests serving from 1950 until 2002 were accused of abuse. The John Jay study puts real numbers on that percentage:
The study said that 4,392 clergymenalmost all priestswere accused of abusing 10,667 people, with 75 percent of the incidents taking place between 1960 and 1984. During the same time frame there were 109,694 priests, it said.... ....68 percent of the allegations were made against priests ordained between 1950 and 1979, while priests ordained after 1979 accounted for 10.7 percent of the allegations.
For the entire 52-year period "the problem was indeed widespread and affected more than 95 percent of the dioceses and approximately 60 percent of religious communities," said the study.
46 posted on
09/29/2009 1:20:03 PM PDT by
Alex Murphy
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