I am highly critical of the Pope’s political agenda. It has taken him away from his religious mission, plus it’s not guided by truth. However, many call the Pope and all priests pedophiles, and that is simply not true. People are dead wrong. Furthermore, all religions have their bad so-called religious leaders at one time or another. Some statistics for you from Bob Donohue of The Catholic League:
There was a scandal in the Catholic Church, but its heyday ended approximately a half-century ago. Most of the offenses took place between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s. How widespread was it at its height? The Washington Post published a survey in 2002 showing that less than 1.5 percent of the estimated sixty thousand or more men who served in the Catholic clergy were accused of the sexual abuse of minors. A New York Times survey reported that 1.8 percent of all priests ordained between 1950 and 2001 were accused of sexually abusing minors.
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