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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did a quick back of the envelope calculation after looking up the number of catholic parishes in PA: 982 parishes, of which 850 have a priest.
Assuming a priest works for 35 years after getting his divinity degree, that's 1700 priests going through those parishes in 70 years, but more likely fewer accounting for population growth and associated increase in parishes during the baby boom years, at least until the 2002 abuse reports.

That's an 18% proportion of [u]known[/u] abusers.

The report said that in spite of the 1000+ cases that were identified, there are likely thousands that went unreported. So what's the real proportion? 40%? 60%?

You would think that the institution would select for its prominent positions people who are unlikely to be tainted by controversy if earlier misdeeds came to light. If the rate is 60%, there should be at least 40% of the priesthood that is blameless and can be promoted according to this criterion. Or is there? Some of these abusers become bishops. Were there so few candidates to select from?[/quote]

I guess it is the same way that other criminals aren't found out until they are President, or in Congress, or the head of a hedge fund, etc. [/quote]

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