Interesting report:
From Hofstra University’s professor Charol Shakeshaft.
. “SEXUAL ABUSE IN SOCIAL CONTEXT:
CATHOLIC CLERGY AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS”
According to a survey by the Washington Post, over the last four decades, less than 1.5 percent of the estimated 60,000 or more men who have served in the Catholic clergy have been accused of child sexual abuse.[iv]
Finally, in the authoritative work by Penn State professor Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests, it was determined that between .2 and 1.7 percent of priests are pedophiles. The figure among the Protestant clergy ranges between 2 and 3 percent.[xxii]
Shakeshaft has also determined that 15 percent of all students have experienced some kind of sexual misconduct by a teacher between kindergarten and 12th grade; the behaviors range from touching to forced penetration.[xxxvi]
In a survey for the Wall Street Journal-NBC News, it was found that 64 percent of the public thought that Catholic priests frequently abused children.[xxxix] This is outrageously unfair, but it is not surprising given the media fixation on this issue
http://www.catholicleague.org/research/abuse_in_social_context.htm
Look around. In our small town two priests were convicted of sexually abusing young boys.
There's hardly a town or parish that hasn't experienced this same kind of sexual abuse.
Over $2,000,000,000 recently paid out in settlements in the U.S. alone.
And while sexual abuse can occur in public schools, it is primarily heterosexual. In Roman Catholic schools and churches, it is overwhelmingly homosexual.
Francky, I've seen her presented with this and numerous other corroboirating studies at least a dozen times without any effect. The truth is not important when the Catholic Church can be slandered.
Don’t cloud the issue with reported facts that go against popular opinion. /so