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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do people expect when you limit your teachers to no marriage and celibacy?  Then, you put a bunch of vulnerable children in their care.

Its like asking a starving lion to look over lambs.[/quote]

Simply preposterous assertions.

To begin with, the vast, vast majority of teachers in Catholic facilities have always been women, and in the last fifty years mostly lay women who are free to marry and typically are married.

In any event, there is no evidence linking celibacy, particularly among women religious, to molestation of minors.

Celibacy obviously is not a factor in public schools, which are protected by sovereign immunity and unlimited public defense funds, and where the rate of abuse is estimated to be 100 times higher than that ever alleged against Catholic institutions.

The majority of alleged abusers are married men, and typically related to their victims. [/quote]
I've read a lot of the survivor stories. It doesn't happen at school as much as it's centered around church activities. The teachers in K-8 do tend to be lay women. There have been a few cases of nuns who SA.

A lot of the children did something at the church like be an altar boy. The priest was often a family friend or made an effort to because friendly with the family. Then they did other activities with the child like taking them on outings or trips as trust was established with the parents.

It happens at all ages and does also involve teachers but mostly with teenagers. In my community there was a high school teacher who did the same but chose kids from school clubs and activities where he was the advisor. The kids do extra work on the activity after hours at the school or rectory or they go on field trips or overnights. Also coaches.[/quote]

The difference is that public school gets rid of them, and Catholic schools shift the abusers around and protect them. Right this moment in Louisiana and Baltimore, the Church is doing its damnedest to keep records shut and protect the abusers.  Shame on them.  
There are approximately 1.6 million kids in Catholic schools and 49.6 million in public. There is no reality that the math of abuse shows better in Catholic schools than in public. Learn math.

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“ Consider the statistics: In accordance with a requirement of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, in 2002 the Department of Education carried out a study of sexual abuse in the school system.

“Hofstra University researcher Charol Shakeshaft looked into the problem, and the first thing that came to her mind when Education Week reported on the study were the daily headlines about the Catholic Church.

"[T]hink the Catholic Church has a problem?" she said. "The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/has-media-ignored-sex-abuse-in-school/

Catholic institutions have state of the art child protection programs, and have for decades. Public institutions, protected by sovereign immunity and with taxpayer funded defense, not so much.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s records are literally an open book, as evidenced by one-sided “investigation” reports. I suspect that the situation in the various dioceses in Louisiana is the same. Contrary to the popular Alinskyite blood-libel (which insists on lumping every alleged abuse allegation ever into a single moment and then judging them according to a unique standard manufactured to condemn Catholic institutions because of Catholic moral teachings), the now-published records show that for the most part, bishops and superiors did the best they could in individual cases, according to the social standards of the times and the advice they received from experts in those cases. That expert advice included at various times the recommendation that accused abusers could be treated and retired to work and/or reassigned away from temptation.  [/quote]

PP is a Catholic Apologist.[/quote]

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