defending priests

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I just asked for this info in the wrong way, apparently, so I am trying again. I apparently named a name that is banned as a topic. However, what I want to know really doesn’t have to do with that name that I won’t name. So here is my request, without that name.

I am looking for links to authoritative sites to help me defend priests from abuse allegations (implications that all priests probably abuse since they are “forced” to be celibate. Bleh.) by persons perpetrating such hostility to Catholicism on a forum of a non-religious nature elsewhere.

The sort of link I am looking for is info and fact sources. For example, what Cardinal Dolan said: that NYC school teachers are 10x more likely to abuse than priests.He would not say that without fact. And this goes with what I read somewhere else once. Also, I read somewhere once that just being a male, your likelihood to abuse are far higher than being a priest. But I need sources to back these stats, preferably not Catholic-only sources, as one could argue Catholics made it all up just to defend themselves.

I can find plenty of links I trust with the real facts of abuse stats, and I am understanding of this crisis from many angles for myself, but for the Catholic-priest detractors, I need more “unbiased”-appearing sources, as just plain Catholic sources will be suspect to them.

I would appreciate direction on this, because I want to defend Priests and Catholicism, and I thought that the Apologetics forum, on Catholic.com, would be the very place where someone could point me in the right direction so I can do that.
 
Thanks, that’s a good start, particularly the 2nd article because while its catholic, it lists a link of original source. The first link is good for me, I trust it, but problematic for ones who would dismiss a Catholic publication as making things up just to defend Catholicism… thats why I am hoping to find some non-Catholic sources. So maybe if I bump this up I can get some others, too. Thanks!
 
Couple other sources I’ve come across during the years:
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Here’s a 2002 article from Boston Globe about the treatment facilities used by the Church going back to the 60s.
Dr. Frederick Berlin at Johns Hopkins said in 1997 the Church received faulty psychiatric advice in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
A 2010 article at Slate stating that the Church was told certain priests were “cured” in the 60s (this article also contains the first link above)
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Analysis of John Jay report in Psychology Today magazine from 2011 talks about the vast majority of these accusations pointing to incidents before 1990. It may be worth noting to your friends skeptical of the John Jay report that psychologists have no problem accepting its results.
 
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