TIME Magazine reports that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will payout $660 Million to more than 500 victims of child abuse by the clergy. This is just the latest settlement in a widespread problem of child abuse by Catholic Priests. Almost all of the cases are the same – an older Catholic Priest molesting an Alter Boy. Many of the abuse cases involved some sort of retreat for these monsters to commit their pedophilia. By my numbers (see below), there could be as many of 24,000 of these assholes!
My personal feelings on this matter sway me to believe that there is a sort of unwritten rite in the Catholic church that calls for this unspeakable act. The cases seem so widespread and so common that it seems it would have to be almost a ceremonial tradition of some sort to molest young boys. My theory is supported by the fact that in the more than 300 cases of sexual abuse that have arisen over the last 5 years, many of them were “handled” by the Catholic Church by doing no more than shuffling the priest around to a different Church. That’s insane.
Hardcore Christians think the molestation happens because the Priests aren’t saved.
Why are so many perverts in the “priesthood”?
1. The unbiblical requirement for a celibate priesthood.
2. The Catholic religion is not Christian so their priests are not saved and still in their sins.
3. Catholics are trained to look on their priests with awe–Catholic priests are called “another Christ” (which is the definition of antichrist) . This is called brainwashing. Little children and unstable adults are easy victims. Pervert Catholic priests all over the world have been having a field day with people’s lives. They got away with it for centuries, but with the media, people are speaking out now.
4. A lot of Catholic priests don’t even believe in God. The Catholic priesthood is a job. They get adoration from men, a place to sleep, something to eat. A former Catholic related to me that when he was in counseling with his priest the priest told him not to mention God–the priest said his therapist had said that he had to deal with his own problems!
Pretty sickening take on the whole thing, if you ask me. Saved or unsaved, God or no God, there’s never an excuse for child abuse. A commenter below mentioned that the above group isn’t so innocent from molestation scandals themselves.
I was surprised to find ReligiousTolerance.org’s denouncing of these actions a little weak. They look at the problem statistically:
Nobody even knows how many adults in general sexually abuse youth and adults. A figure of 2% is often mentioned. However this is really just a guess…
It is important to keep one’s eye on the forest and not on the trees. Even if, as one researcher estimates, six percent of priests sexually abuse youth or children, then that still leaves an average of almost 19 priests out of every 20 who are non-abusive.
1 in 20 is an astonishing figure! AllAboutReligion.com estimates there to be 400,000 Catholic Priests, worldwide. At six percent, that’s 24,000 pedophile priests that are molesting our children!
July 17, 2007 at 11:27 am |
[...] The Great Realization estimates there are 24,000 abusive Catholic priests in the world. We also get a link to explanations of why all this happens from one fundie Christian site: Why are so many perverts in the “priesthood”? I have a few thoughts: [...]
July 17, 2007 at 11:42 am |
With 3 billion men in the world and a 2% offense rate, that means there’s 6 million non-priest lay men “molesting our children!”
Applying the higher 6% offense rate that you used to arrive at 24,000 priests, there are about 18 million non-priest lay men “molesting our children!”
BTW, I was unable to locate your post on the 800 plus known non-Catholic ministers who have engaged in the same behavior: http://www.reformation.com/
What are your estimates on the number of non-Catholic ministers that are offending?
July 19, 2007 at 11:07 am |
Well the Catholic Church is a completely corrupt organization. I’m a Christian, but I think you make some good points. However, I’m sure even atheists are not lacking in the area of molesting children. Every religion (or lack thereof) has its bad apples. Some just obviously have more than others….
April 16, 2008 at 5:27 pm |
This 6% figure is likely low an estimated 7% of public school teachers have illecit sexual contact with minor students, We Americans are the most sexually corrupt mentally unhealthy folks on the planet. Until we stop advertisers and religious radicals from determining our values this will not stop.
December 2, 2008 at 12:12 pm |
No more than 2% of priests have been acused of the sexual abuse of children. Most of the cases are over thiry years old. Your 24,000 statistic is rediculous. One predator priests could have molested dozens of children. Read the book “Pediphile and Priests” by Phillip Jenkins. He is a professor Pennsylvania State University and isn’t even Catholic. He has studied the whole situration and concludes that sexual abuse is no more common in the Catholic Church than it is in any other denomiation or in society at large. The Catholic Church just gets the publicity
August 13, 2009 at 9:37 am |
No more than 2%. That number doesn’t fly even by the most conservative counts. Anywhere between 4% and 9% depending on which study you believe. The numbers are significantly higher than 2 percent in Diocese that have had their “secret” files suboenaed and the Bishops could no longer keep their secrets.
I don’t disagree that there are problems in other denominations or in teachers, scout leaders, etc. The Catholic Church (read that to mean the Bishops) need to fess up and take real action. This deflect attention from us to avoid further scrutiny strategy just makes the Catholic Hierachy look criminal.
I know how they lie, they hid my perp for years until I forced them to publicly admit he was a pedophile. He still enjoys your church’s protection.
I recommend you get your head out of the sand.
December 4, 2008 at 10:53 am |
The Roman Catholic Church is a monsterous evil. We are under attack by evil. The Roman Catholic Church is the church of SATAN. The Roman Catholic Priests are priests of SATAN and they feed like vampires on the people. The Roman Catholic Priests represent a foreign power and that power is headquartered in ROME. The Roman Catholic Church is UN-AMERICAN. The American population is being raped and robbed by the Priests of the Church of Rome. The Roman Catholic Church has killed more people than Al Qaeda ever dreamed of (inquisition). The sicko priests of Rome are going to hell on a daily basis. Those sick bastards have corrupted multitudes.
January 19, 2009 at 8:28 pm |
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March 11, 2009 at 2:56 pm |
I think your numbers are conservative. It took me years to get my perp priest publicly identified as a child rapist. Tip of the iceberg!
Michael
http://michaelbaumann.wordpress.com
May 31, 2009 at 1:00 pm |
Criminal Bible, criminal christan World!
1. Pedophile in the Bible? Pedophilie in the Churchs!
2. Genocide in the Bible, Racism in the Bible, War!
3. Antisemitism in the Bible, Incest, Vandalism,
Apartheid, Hate, Slavery, Superstition…
Atheist 100%
August 12, 2009 at 3:14 pm |
I believe in the catholic church,and I find it very offensive that we are called non-christians! If you will check historical records you will find that the Roman catholic church was the first church.The twelve disciples were the first catholics. The word catholic means universal….look it up? I feel the pediphile priest should be arrested and serve time in prison just like anyone else!PLEASE DO NOT DEMONIZE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH! All churches have sinners in them not just the catholics!
Hillery T. Watkins
August 13, 2009 at 9:45 am |
The actions of the Catholic Church are very un-Christian at times. They hid the priest who raped me when I was 13 for decades and finally moved him out of state to avoid prosecution. I will continue to speak out against the Catholic Hierarchy that has protected these monsters for centuries (and yes, that is documented).
All churches do have sinners, I am amazed though at the number of criminals wearing Roman Collars in the Catholic Church. When your church’s leadership roots out all the pedophiles and rapists (about 4% of the priests)and dismisses the bishops that protected them, I will happily go back to my quiet life. In the meantime I will be very critical of the Bishops who allow the pedophiles to continue to rape children.
Funny, the apologists for the bishops seem to thing we are attacking the faith, we are not. Many of the survivors are devout Catholics. We want the church to do what is right, moral, ethical and Christian. The Bishops have failed miserably doing the right thing. At some point it stopped being about God.