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(June 6, 2013 at 11:10 am)Rahul Wrote: Oh, Nice! Let's break it down!

Total Catholic Priests:

370,425

As of May 9, 2013, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has counted 6,275 clerics "not implausibly" and "credibly" accused in 1950-2012 of sexually abusing minors. The USCCB total omits allegations made in 2003.

So 6,275 is 1.69 percent of catholic priests that are credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.
No, 6,275 is the number of priests credibly or not implausibly accused.
Quote:EDIT: Oh, wait. That's 6,275 of Catholic priests in "America". Oops. Let me recalculate.

American Catholic Priests 46,447.

*Shudders*

...13.5%?

13.5% KNOWN?

*BARFS!*
Uh, Sherlock, your numerator represents 1950 - 2012 and your denominator is the current number only. Your conclusion is meaningless. Not to mention that you've given no data on the general public for comparison. Oops, I mentioned it!

In 1996 a Penn State professor (non-Catholic) published a book in which he found no evidence of higher frequency of child sexual abusers among priests than among the general public.
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/the-myt...ile-priest

BTW I'm not Catholic, and if you can support your premise, it might be worthy of discussion.

On another site I used to frequent, the most vocal anti-Catholic atheist said that according to his studies, there was no greater frequency of child sexual abuse among clergy than in the general population. The cover-up was his complaint, and I agreed with him.
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