re: #245 ludwigvanquixote

re: #245 ludwigvanquixote

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Pedophilia is of course, a horrible crime. It is also sensational and is guaranteed to get a lot of coverage. As a result, out of the tens of thousands of Catholic Priests out there, who are not pedophiles, the ten or twenty who were make a huge and disproportionate splash in the public perception of the priesthood because of media coverage.
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However, to say things like you just said, is grossly unfair.

Oh dear, I though you were a mathematician and a scientist. Are you saying a reasonable estimate is somewhere around one out of one or two thousand?

The John Jay paper estimated approximately 4% of priests were pedophiles of the 110,000 priests who served during his study period of 1950 – 2002. The problem also affected more than 95 percent of dioceses.

Even the Church came back with an estimate of “no more than 1% world wide.

I’d say my words “Significant minority” were very fair assuming about 4% of priests were active pedophiles during that period, many more were actively enabling this behaviour and participating in cover ups. I might even say a disturbing minority of priests were pedophiles and still be very fair.

John Jay Paper