I think he might be referring to this, but can't tell because it screws up on this tablet. http://docstoc.com/docs/3550874/CHI...OURCE-NUMBERS-New-York-State-Central-Register tried the download link but am really not in the mood to be futzing around and paying out gobs of cash for this.
The problem here is no one can validate the Priest's claim. The Catholic Church has refused to open their records to allow external audits of these events. I encourage the Catholic Church to list out the sexual relations of their 'celebit' priests, so we can ask the people if they were victimized or not.
Hardly a convincing defence of child abuse, is it? Even if true, it smacks of, "Sure we rape children sometimes - perhaps even a lot of the time - but that's OK because there is another group of people who rape even more children than we do."
I don't think that is the point. The point is priest commit no more abuse than the general public. It's no wonder that, back in 2002—when the last Catholic sex-abuse scandal was making headlines—a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 64 percent of those queried thought Catholic priests "frequently'' abused children. Yet experts say there's simply no data to support the claim at all. There is no defense of child abuse and the rate among priests should be zero ideally. The point is that the pop culture idea that all priests are molesters which most of our sheep society accept is simply not true.
Every organisation that organises activities for children have a high risk of having to deal with child abuse. It happens. But the criminal part is the role of the organisation of the Catholic church. Apparently the reputation of the church is more important than the well-being of children and respecting the law. Keeping it all hush-hush is literally obstructing the law and that is a criminal offense. As it happened not once, but as a rule, that fact makes the Catholic church in my eyes a criminal organisation.
Paid for by the catholic church. As speel points out, the main issue was that they knew who was doing it, but rather than do something responsible like shop them, they hid them or even worse moved them around whenever things blew up. This was wilful and deliberate on their part and had been going on for decades. They earned that reputation due not only their inaction but by the actions they took that purpetuated it.
It appears LOTS of the Catholic priest activity goes unreported. http://m.jsonline.com/features/reli...ws-two-claims-to-stand-me44pue-139044534.html
If they are suprised they're not paying attention. Nothing like excepting that 'Group of Criminals A' isn't quite as bad as 'Group of Criminals B' because A said so. :banghead
