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[Rahul]

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!

Oops! I'm just copying and pasting the data, Watson.

Do I have to teach you how to use a search engine on the internet?

Number of Priests:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/rel_ca...al-priests

Accused Priests:
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtA...riests.htm

So what if the accused was from 1950 to whenever? Do priests only stay priests for 10 years or so? I thought this was a lifetime gig?

If you were born in 1930, became a priest at 20, and you're still alive you'd still be in your early 80's. Want me to drop the number slightly?

Who cares? Factor in the number that were never accused but were guilty, factor in the ones that died and the new ones that came in, still going to be around 15% easily.

Here we go. 109,694 priests in the US from 1950-2002. So 5.7 percent KNOWN. Double and you have 11.4%.