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Originally Posted by Thor
Sorry but the misconduct of a few?? The entire world has shown Catholic churches, schools, etc.. as BASTIONS of abuse and misconduct.
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This I am not convinced of and I would be very careful to make that claim.
I have only seen one report on a study on this (so not even the study itself), and if the report was correct the study had concluded that the amount of child abuse cases among the catholic organizations was directly proportional to the amount of children in contact with those organizations. This study was from Germany, and it was based on a statistical analysis on the amount of reported child abuse cases. Now obviously this is not a perfect method of studying it, but the people making that study seemed like a well-grounded bunch.
So basically, it seems catholics are on average the same as rest of the surrounding society on average when it comes to child abuse. This fits with my intuition.
Also, as we have seen in numerous cases (like the recent football coach thing), catholics churches and schools are not the only places where issues of child abuse have been brushed aside instead of dealing with them.
This is of course no excuse. The catholic church makes it's living basically on the claim that they make humanity better. It seems they are failing in everything except gathering fortunes.