(February 9, 2016 at 12:43 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:athrock Wrote:Howerver, as has been pointed out in this forum previously (meaning you already know this), the Catholic Church has a lower rate of pedophilia than other institutions (like the public school system, the Boy Scouts, swim teams, etc.) AND these other institutions have ALSO moved people around and tried to hide the problems.Source? Other institutions have similar problems, but I'm interested in knowing what study determined that the rate is lower in the RCC.
And those other institutions don't claim to represent God on Earth.
Google it.
In addition to child molestation issues, the Protestant clergy also has problems with divorce and adultery that the Catholic priesthood does not have for obvious reasons.
And no, those groups don't represent God on earth, but the Church doesn't claim to BE God on Earth...just to be the people of God on earth. The people - all of them combined - are the Church, and we've never claimed to be perfect.