On Sun, 16 May 2010, Joseph Catron wrote:
Linkname: Priests Commit No More Abuse Than Other Males - Newsweek.com
URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/236096
Of what relevence is incidence? It's remediation that's the point.
Nursery school teachers don't abuse children at a greater rate than in the general population either. But when caught, the authorities act differently.
It's the authority response that is being indicted here. And this statement of Benedict's is a shameful response to that indictment which will rightfully continue to hang over him and his organization until he faces up to it and takes the kind of moral responsibility his organization insists on in others. Which I believe he is constitutionally incapable of doing. Literally in terms of his physical and characterological constitution.
This isn't a secular/religious divide. No one is more upset about it than Catholics.
Michael