From News 24:
Two church-sanctioned studies documenting sex abuse by United States Roman Catholic clergy say about four percent of clerics have been accused of molesting minors since 1950.The number is around 4% of priests have engaged in this activity...Pope Benny, is the Church willing to accept that?
The studies blame bishops' "moral laxity" in disciplining offenders for letting the problem worsen.
The diocese of Yakima, Washington, said in a news release on Thursday that a survey compiled by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found 4 392 of the 109 694 clergy who served in that five-decade period faced allegations of abuse.
The survey was overseen by the National Review Board, a lay watchdog panel the bishops formed at the height of the molestation crisis.
