This story is a good sign of the many efforts undertaken by the Church over the last 15 to 20 years to resolve this terrible clerical abuse scandal.
The Church's efforts have been working extremely well, to the point that in the last three years an average of six cases per year have been reported against priests in the U.S., a country that has over 41,000 priests, a number that is growing year by year.
This means that 99.9% of the Catholic priests in the U.S. remained faithful to the Church and to their vows.
The secular world could learn much from what the Church has accomplished, since the best estimate of sexual abuse of children in public schools in the U.S. is as much as 100 times greater than anything that ever happened at the hands of Catholic priests.
Elsewhere in the secular world the sexual abuse of children is at epidemic proportions, both at home among family members and in organized criminal enterprises.
voterx I'm sorry to inform you of this but you really don't know what you're talking about, nor will you ever if your only input into this situation is restricted to "see(ing) them (SNAP) on the news."
I have communicated directly with SNAP officials in the past and even they admit that the abuse cases they are working on include Protestant ministers, evangelical preachers, Jewish Rabbis, Anglican clerics, public school teachers and many other categories of professionals.
I would recommend that you get on the website, StopBaptistPredators.org to get an idea of what I'm trying to explain to you.
You most probably will continue to hate the Catholic Church regardless of the absence of sexual abuse of minors among priests and that is your prerogative.
But you cannot claim to know the truth because you don't. Learn something true before you post here again.
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BUT RELIGION IS THE SEED OF EVIL.
The Church's efforts have been working extremely well, to the point that in the last three years an average of six cases per year have been reported against priests in the U.S., a country that has over 41,000 priests, a number that is growing year by year.
This means that 99.9% of the Catholic priests in the U.S. remained faithful to the Church and to their vows.
The secular world could learn much from what the Church has accomplished, since the best estimate of sexual abuse of children in public schools in the U.S. is as much as 100 times greater than anything that ever happened at the hands of Catholic priests.
Elsewhere in the secular world the sexual abuse of children is at epidemic proportions, both at home among family members and in organized criminal enterprises.
I'm sorry to inform you of this but you really don't know what you're talking about, nor will you ever if your only input into this situation is restricted to "see(ing) them (SNAP) on the news."
I have communicated directly with SNAP officials in the past and even they admit that the abuse cases they are working on include Protestant ministers, evangelical preachers, Jewish Rabbis, Anglican clerics, public school teachers and many other categories of professionals.
I would recommend that you get on the website, StopBaptistPredators.org to get an idea of what I'm trying to explain to you.
You most probably will continue to hate the Catholic Church regardless of the absence of sexual abuse of minors among priests and that is your prerogative.
But you cannot claim to know the truth because you don't. Learn something true before you post here again.