When someone asks a question with the word Catholic in it, there is always one or two answers about Priests and Altar Servers.
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] According to a survey by the New York Times, 1.8 percent of all priests ordained from 1950 to 2001 have been accused of child sexual abuse.[v] Thomas Kane, author of Priests are People Too, estimates that between 1 and 1.5 percent of priests have had charges made against them.[vi] Of contemporary priests, the Associated Press found that approximately two-thirds of 1 percent of priests have charges pending against them.[vii] (see link below)
Please do not judge all Priests. many are innocent so why blame them all?
http://www.catholicleague.org/research/abuse_in_social_context.htm
2007-09-03
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