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Pedophile Priests

Posted By: I am sure there are many more! on 2008-09-16
In Reply to: You can't provide them. Just say so. lol. - sam

This is like the fox keeping track of the chickens, but here are some numbers for you. Please keep in mind that sexual crimes often go unreported, and this report was commissioned by the Catholic Church, so it is in their best interest to keep the numbers low.

The John Jay Report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was based on surveys completed by the Catholic dioceses in the United States. The surveys provided information from diocesan files on each priest accused of sexual abuse and on each of the priest's victims. That information was filtered, so that the research team did not have access to the names of the accused priests or the dioceses where they worked. The report presented aggregate findings. The dioceses were encouraged to issue reports of their own based on the surveys that they had completed. The Report found accusations against 4,392 priests in the USA, about 4% of all priests.

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What about the pedophile Priests?
Where were all the heartwarming pictures of priests sexually abusing little alter boys with beautiful orchestration playing in the background in this religious propaganda piece?
Not a "goofy post".The ratio of pedophile priests
Look...to me a pedophile is a pedophile...
and in many cases pedophiles are in positions of authority...teachers, day care workers and operators...probably more than we know, because priests are high profile and good media fodder. Most of the time with other pedophiles we don't find out what they do for a living...occasionally we will hear about teachers and day care providers...we hear about EVERY priest.

That is all I am saying.

As to covering for priests...I agree. The Catholic church should not have done that. But then again, people should not have allowed themselves to be bought off either. More should have gone the criminal route.

Just my two cents.
As scary as Sarah Palin & her priests trying to
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I believe in God, never go to church, cannot stand priests, and not the Pope,
I am pro-choice up to the end of the 3rd month, I am against torture and against the death penalty.
Hey, all you liberals out there! It's YOUR fault that priests sexually abuse

I'm sure the usual suspects from the Conservative board also agree with the conclusions of THIS Pennsylvania nut case and will be ready to blame Kennedy for starting trouble.  LMAO!


Conservatives are getting weirder by the hour.


 


Kennedy slams Santorum for church sex abuse remarks


By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer  |  July 13, 2005


WASHINGTON --In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy called Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum self-righteous and insensitive for his remarks linking Boston's liberal reputation to the clergy sex abuse scandal.


In recent days, Santorum has refused to back down from comments he made in a 2002 column, in which he said promoting alternative lifestyles spawns aberrant behavior, such as priests molesting children. He went on to say that it was not surprising that liberal Boston was at the center of the scandal.


"The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say," said Kennedy, D-Mass., in a speech from the Senate chamber.


Kennedy called for Santorum to apologize to the people of Boston and across the nation, noting that the clergy abuse happened all across the country, in "red states and blue states, in the north and in the south, in big cities and small."


On Wednesday, Santorum spokesman Robert Traynham said the Pennsylvania conservative recognizes that the church abuse scandal was not just in Boston.


He said Santorum "was speaking to a broader cultural argument about the need for everyone to take these issues very, very seriously."


Santorum's initial observations were in a July 2002 column for Catholic Online, and came back to public light last month and earlier this week in newspaper accounts.


"Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture," Santorum wrote in the Catholic Online column. "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."


Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., accused Santorum of abject ignorance, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., called the senator's rationale bizarre.


"As a prosecutor in Massachusetts, I saw some of the worst criminals who had abused children and not once did I hear them hide behind Sen. Santorum's bizarre claim that the state was responsible for their acts," Kerry said.


David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Santorum's column tries to minimize the abuse scandal, and imply that "some vague, larger societal defects" somehow caused clergy to assault children.


"In 2002, we gave Sen. Santorum the benefit of the doubt, assuming he was not aware of the scope of the abuse crisis," said Clohessy. "In 2005, it's hard to understand how he could repeat and stand by such misguided and harmful comments."


The scandal began in Boston in early 2002 when internal church files released under court order revealed abusive priests were transferred from parish to parish rather than removed from ministry. Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as archbishop later that year amid criticism over his handling of the crisis.


A 2003 investigation by Attorney General Thomas Reilly found that at least 1,000 children were abused by more than 235 priests and church workers between 1940 and 2000. And the archdiocese has paid out more than $120 million to settle abuse claims since 1950.


Reilly, a Democratic candidate for governor, also criticized Santorum on Wednesday. "For him to equate liberalism with child abuse is disgraceful," he said. "It's embarrassing for him and embarrassing to his party and his party should disown him." "



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Los Angeles Files Recount Decades of Priests' Abuse...sm
see link.
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