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[quote=Anonymous]To counter 1327, I quickly looked at that AP articles.  It was taken up by NYT, MSNC, and CSM to name a few.  Presumably, you consider those to be the mainstream media.

But, more seriously, no one was claiming that pedophiles were limited to The Catholic Church.  But I do think that the Catholic Church did far more to cover it up all over the world than most (but probably not all) Protestant Churches.  It is a worldwide issue for Catholics, and the centralized and insular power structure of The Catholic Church reinforces the tendency to protect itself.

I personally am aware of one incident here in DC that a mainstream Protestant group dealt with in the early 1980's.  That church handled it, and adopted policies to deal with future situations.  No doubt, all of that has been updated since then.  But I know it was handled aggressively at the time.

I at least am not aware of any Protestant denomination, region, or church going bankrupt over these issues, or even coming close to that.   That contrasts with The Catholic Church.  And the reason for that is because the Bishops handle these issues poorly when they were raised.

To your numbers, you can't compare 260 with 228.  There are twice the number of Protestants in the US as the Catholics.  Roughly 25% of the US adult population is Catholic, while 50% of it is Protestant.  Now, of course, I do not know what percentage of US Protestants are covered by the number in the AP story.  But certainly claiming that this is more of an issue for Protestants than Catholics is misleading, at least based on the AP story.

I wonder whether this issue is more prominent in certain Protestant Churches, than others, whether that be Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, Fundamentalist or Pentecostal.[/quote]

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