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!)
To: MikeWUSAF
And yet you’re using it to discredit the Catholic faith.
25 posted on
03/16/2010 8:30:58 AM PDT by
Pope Pius XII
(There's no such thing as divorce)
To: MikeWUSAF
How about one offense with teachers?
Does that make ALL the teachers offenders?
46 posted on
03/16/2010 8:54:16 AM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: MikeWUSAF
Where did the pope say it was 5 percent? It’s 2 percent, not 5 that have been accused.
This is no different then in the general population.
147 posted on
03/16/2010 10:56:17 AM PDT by
BenKenobi
(And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.)
To: MikeWUSAF
Yes, just focus on preists and you miss the WHOLE problem which is all through society. THAT is the danger of the focus on priests.
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