I am highly critical of the Pope’s political agenda. It has taken him away from his religious mission, plus it’s not guided by truth. However, many call the Pope and all priests pedophiles, and that is simply not true. People are dead wrong. Furthermore, all religions have their bad so-called religious leaders at one time or another. Some statistics for you from Bob Donohue of The Catholic League:

There was a scandal in the Catholic Church, but its heyday ended approximately a half-century ago. Most of the offenses took place between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s. How widespread was it at its height? The Washington Post published a survey in 2002 showing that less than 1.5 percent of the estimated sixty thousand or more men who served in the Catholic clergy were accused of the sexual abuse of minors. A New York Times survey reported that 1.8 percent of all priests ordained between 1950 and 2001 were accused of sexually abusing minors.

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice issued a study in 2004 that found that in the period 1950-2002, 4 percent of the Catholic clergy were accused of sexually molesting minors. It also found that 149 priests, or 3.5 percent, who had more than ten allegations of abuse were responsible for 26 percent of all the allegations. In other words, of the 4,393 priests who had an accusation made against them between 1950 and 2002 (not all of which were substantiated), a mere 149 of them accounted for more than a quarter of the allegations.

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Data from the last year that we have reliable information on, July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, show that of the 48,176 members of the clergy, exactly two had a substantiated accusation made against them during this period. This means that a whopping 0.004 percent of priests had a substantiated case of sexual abuse made against them by a minor.

Unfortunately, in any institution where adults regularly interact with minors, sexual misconduct is a problem. But there is no institution in American society today, religious or secular, that has less of a problem with the sexual abuse of minors than the Catholic Church. To imply otherwise is irresponsible.

We know that 81 percent of the victims were male, and that 78 percent were postpubescent, meaning that the lion’s share of the abuse was committed by homosexuals (3.8 percent were pedophiles). Of course, don’t expect the media to report these facts, including Fox News, which is part of the cover-up.

The media is not our friend. Don’t believe everything you read. They are invested in destroying religion, and no one should want 1.4 million Catholics rudderless. That being said, the Pope needs to get back to emphasizing religion and actual Scripture. He will cause people to leave the church.

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