re: Pope cut penalties for pedophile priests including letting two off with a prayer

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Statistically it has been proven time and again catholic priests abuse at a rate about the same as Protestant clergy and both are much, much lower than general society.

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Only through studies financed by the Catholics. But if you want to compare priests to protestant clergy then why not compare the differences in the power the Catholics claim for their priests to the mere mortal status most protestants claim their clergy to have.