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MineralMan

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2. How many victims per priest, I wonder?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 01:03 PM

Dec 2018

How many children have had to deal with being preyed on rather than being prayed for? This scandal is so enormous that it should spell the end of the current Catholic hierarchy and a complete restructuring of the priesthood. Nothing less is going to do.

It's not just Illinois, either. Every diocese around the world has been covering this up for decades, at least.

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Illinois Attorney General Says Catholic Church Withheld Names of at Least 500 Accused Priests [View all] Eugene Dec 2018 OP

It is just a few hundred bad apples. Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #1

How many victims per priest, I wonder? MineralMan Dec 2018 #2

500 offenders over a period of more than 50 years... Act_of_Reparation Dec 2018 #3

But 50 years is just a blink of an eye. Really. MineralMan Dec 2018 #4