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To: MikeWUSAF

Ever try percentage numbers? You should look into it.


10 posted on 03/16/2010 7:59:26 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII (There's no such thing as divorce)
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To: Pope Pius XII
Ever try percentage numbers? You should look into it.

Sure, let's play down the offense by stating that only 5% of the Catholic clergy have been involved in sexual abuse cases (Per the Pope in September of 2009).

The problem with that tactic is that Christianity is the largest religion in the world followed by Islam. The earth currently has about 7 billion people and 2.2 billion call themselves Christian. The Catholic church makes up over half of those Christians or 1.1 billion people. So that small 5% of clergy who serve those 1.2 billion followers is a rather large number.

4392 priests and deacons in just the U.S. had substantiated claims by their diocese.

By my moral standards, 1 offense is 1 too many.
17 posted on 03/16/2010 8:16:57 AM PDT by TSgt (RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
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To: Pope Pius XII; MikeWUSAF
Ever try percentage numbers?

What percentage of children being abused is an acceptable number for you, PP?

39 posted on 03/16/2010 8:47:23 AM PDT by T Minus Four ("You do not have soul, you ARE a soul. You have a body." C.S. Lewis)
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