Christianity and the 10 Commandments

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Studies have shown that the percentage of priest child molesters is actually lower than the percentage of molesters in the normal population. Priest estimates run from .2% - 2% while the normal population is 1% - 5%. These are speculations of undiscovered offenders. Only 55 (.12% of) priests have been actually exposed as abusers (not just accused) while there are 705,000 registered sexual offenders in the US. It is very sad what they do, but it's also shameful of the media to cast all priests in a negative light based on so few instances.

The statistics are meaningless.

Child molestation was endemic in the Catholic church. The church protected pedophile priests (and the church itself,above its flock) AS A MATTER OF POLICY.It continues to protect itself at the expense of the victims.

The basis of church behaviour is the entrenched official position that canon law trumps civil law. One of the other egregious examples of that attitude is the claim of the ABSOLUTE right to privacy of the confessional. Priests who claim that right in defiance of civil law should be charged and put in prison,as should any bishop or Pope, in my opinion..

PS No Christian church is in a position of being able to cast stones as far as I can see.

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Reference: "The Case Of The Pope" Geoffrey Robertson QC.

THE CASE OF THE POPE delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.

Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law?

Geoffrey Robertson QC, a distinguished human rights lawyer and judge, evinces a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolescent canon law, the Vatican will remain a serious enemy to the advance of human rights.

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDis...96,00.html