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Major Nikon

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11. What is the percentage compared to the general population?

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Dec 23, 2018, 11:52 AM

Dec 2018

We'll probably never know for sure because it's not as if the RCC is going to ever offer full transparency. However, it's pretty safe to assume predators gravitate towards the profession as it offers them both opportunity and concealment.

The RCC must have figured this out very early on, but instead of taking pro-active steps to protect their membership, they chose to engage in a conspiracy of coverup. The result was the formation of extensive networks of child raping priests many of whom were able to reach high levels of power and conceal the crimes of other child raping priests.

The whole thing amounts to a criminal enterprise. The worst part is the RCC has yet to enact policies which protect children.

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Here's the thing: The percentage of priests who are pedophiles is small. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2018 OP

Agreed. It's always the coverup, as evil as the initial act. Merlot Dec 2018 #1

More evil, in my opinion. MineralMan Dec 2018 #5

Also snowybirdie Dec 2018 #2

Who would go into a profession where you can't marry Beakybird Dec 2018 #3

There are many reasons people become priests. MineralMan Dec 2018 #8

I agree. People also mostly dont know the immense good that Catholic Charities does. mahina Dec 2018 #4

The bad always overrides the good where news is concerned. MineralMan Dec 2018 #12

Al Capone ran a soup kitchen. Eva Peron fed the hungry. Pope George Ringo II Dec 2018 #20

Bergoglio's criminal cartel. Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #6

It predates him, as well. MineralMan Dec 2018 #7

The other thing Cartoonist Dec 2018 #9

Yes. That myth makes things much, much worse. MineralMan Dec 2018 #10

If you are a child rapist, the priesthood offers all sorts of benefits beyond access to victims Major Nikon Dec 2018 #13

What is the percentage compared to the general population? Major Nikon Dec 2018 #11

There is really no way to know. MineralMan Dec 2018 #14

I think there is a way to know Major Nikon Dec 2018 #15

That is beginning to happen. We're starting to hear about actual MineralMan Dec 2018 #16

AGs are having to pry the information out of the RCC Major Nikon Dec 2018 #17

Yes, of course. MineralMan Dec 2018 #18

I think these things happen more in any institution with an authoritarian base to it. safeinOhio Dec 2018 #19

Schools, Boy Scouts, military, police forces, families guillaumeb Dec 2018 #21

This is the Religion Group, Guy. MineralMan Dec 2018 #22

Your avoidance of the obvious point is noted. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #23

So we can't expect morality from groups who pretend to be moral authorities Major Nikon Dec 2018 #24

All of these groups make some claim. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #25

I don't remember the Boy Scouts lobbying against civil rights Major Nikon Dec 2018 #26