Monday, July 14, 2014

That's A Lot Of Perverts

From Philly.com:
About two percent of Roman Catholic clerics are sexual abusers, an Italian newspaper on Sunday quoted Pope Francis as saying, adding that the pontiff considered the crime "a leprosy in our house".
But the Vatican issued a statement saying some parts of a long article in the left-leaning La Repubblica were not accurate, including one that quoted the pope as saying that there were cardinals among the abusers.
The article was a reconstruction of an hour-long conversation between the pope and the newspaper's founder, Eugenio Scalfari, an atheist who has written about several past encounters with the pope.
"Many of my collaborators who fight with me (against pedophilia) reassure me with reliable statistics that say that the level of pedophilia in the Church is at about two percent," Francis was quoted as saying.
"This data should hearten me but I have to tell you that it does not hearten me at all. In fact, I think that it is very grave," he was quoted as saying.
The pope was quoted as saying that, while most pedophilia took place in family situations, "even we have this leprosy in our house".
According to Church statistics for 2012, the latest available, there are about 414,000 Roman Catholic priests in the world.

So, with 414,000 priests world wide, that means there are about 8300 perverts out there, not exactly doing God's work.
Hopefully Francis will take it seriously.

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