More Great Things About Catholicism

Okay, after perusing a few of the articles that Google has cached, I have to eat crow. There are more than three priests that have been charged with sexual molestation. The three that I was referring to were all in Boston. Here's the numbers, remember, here at this blog, we only deal in facts, not innuendo and rumor. On to my lashing.....

There have been twenty-two priests charged with the crimes of molestation, fondling, and child abuse in the last three years. Ninety-six percent of the Catholic Dioceses have no record of any of these crimes committed. The overwhelming majority are from the Northeast and we know that they are not part of Jesusland, but rather part of the United States of Canada.

More numbers to support some of the things that I spewed: The vast majority of these crimes took place in the late sixties and early seventies. Not to say there have not been some of these crimes committed before or after, but most occurred then.

Even more numbers: Since the Catholic church started collecting statistical data on these crimes, there have been 148 defrocked priests and the church has spent over 800 million dollars settling these cases. Most people just got paid. Damn. And 137 of these priests were ordained in the sixties. I'm not too stupid about my church.

Still more numbers: There are currently 46,254 ordained priests that are active in the US today. That translates to a percentage of 0.000047563 of priests have been charged with molestation or other sexual crimes. The funny thing about this is that rate is 1/750th of the rate of molestation in non-priests. To go even further, the homosexual male is 17 TIMES more likely to molest a child than a heterosexual male. Go figger.

Anyhoo, we have to protect our chillun from the bad dudes and dudettes even if they are priests. So, I am advocating that every convicted child molester gets put into general population in his state prison of choice. Hey, them bad dudes (that aren't raping children) ain't all bad 'cause they hate them some child molesters. And they have a tendency to work those problems out.

Also, the network that registers sexual offenders here in Mississippi has lost 1756 registered sex offenders, so if you see some creepy unwashed cat rolling around your neighborhood, call the cops.

Hey, preacher, leave them kids alone.

UPDATE: I read the front page at the very least of every one of the links that we were sent. I am even more confused about these numbers now. Here's some numbers even further back. Around 4400 priests have been accused since 1950, with 75% of those incidences occuring between 1960 and 1984. 68% were made against priests ordained between 1950 and 1979. Although most of these incidents occurred BEFORE 1985, they went mostly unreported until AFTER 1993. Man, the plot thickens. Even more weird is the descriptions of some of these alleged situations. Less than half (the numbers are either 25%, 27% or a total 52%, I can't figure that out) are described as not being oral sex or penile penetration. Even more revealing is that only 3% of priests that were charged were convicted and only 2% served time. So, I still don't know exactly how many priests are doing time for sex crimes, but with these numbers, it seems to be an even smaller sampling that I originally thought.

Of all the weird things in the John Jay study, the most bizarre was this statement:
Most of the allegations involved touching over or under clothing. The study said sexual abuse "includes contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used as an object of sexual gratification for the adult." It added that the abuse does not have to involve force or genital or physical contact. This leads me to believe that some of the alleged victims might have just imagined being mentally molested. Forgive me, I am not making light of this, but that just doesn't make any sense. How can any sexual abuse take place when there is no touching? Answers; Bueller, Bueller, Frye, Frye?

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