(March 19, 2012 at 9:27 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Its the hypocrisy the religion displays which is the cause of the mockery when the incidents of paedophilic priests goes beyond the statistical norm for a given society.
Thats the correlation there.. beyond the statistical norm.
The 4,392 priests who were accused amount to approximately 4% of the 109,694 priests in active ministry during that time. Of these 4,392, approximately:
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The prevalence of pedophilia in the general population is not known,[3][60] but is estimated to be lower than 5% based on several smaller studies with prevalence rates between 3% and 9%. Wikipedia
The rates of "accused" priests were in line with rates in the population, the rate of convicted priests would be even lower.