You might find some itmes of interest here:
catholic.com/library/A_Crisis_of_Saints.asp
and a few more references:
Protestant ministers, deacons and lay leaders
commit more acts of child abuse than Catholic Priests.
For one link to an ‘incomplete’ list of Protestant Clergy Abuse ~
reformation.com
1.8% of all priests ordained from 1950-2001 have been accused of child sexual abuse.
In the authoritative work by Penn State professor Philip Jenkins,
Pedophiles and Priests, it was determined that between
.2 and 1.7 percent of priests are pedophiles.
The figure among the Protestant clergy ranges between 2 and 3 percent.
Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests
(New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 50 and 81.
Other Protestant ‘Clergy’ Facts include:
In a 1984 survey, 38.6 percent of ministers reported sexual contact
with a church member, and 76 percent knew of another minister who
had had sexual intercourse with a parishioner.
In the same year, a Fuller Seminary survey of 1,200 ministers found
that 20 percent of theologically “conservative” pastors admitted to
some sexual contact outside of marriage with a church member.
The figure jumped to over 40 percent for “moderates”;
50 percent of “liberal” pastors confessed to similar behavior.
Dale Neal, “Methodist Clergy Instructed in Sexual Ethics at Conference,”
Asheville Citizen-Times, May 14, 2002, p. 1B.
Cal Thomas, “Their Sins only Start with Abuse,”
Baltimore Sun, June 19, 2002, p. 9A.
In a 1993 survey by the Journal of Pastoral Care,
14 percent of Southern Baptist ministers said they had engaged in
“inappropriate sexual behavior,” and 70 percent said they knew a minister
who had had such contact with a parishioner.
Joe E. Trull is co-author of the 1993 book, Ministerial Ethics,
and he found that “from 30 to 35 percent of ministers of all
denominations admit to having sexual relationships—
from inappropriate touching to sexual intercourse—outside of marriage.”
Teresa Watanabe, “Sex Abuse by Clerics—A Crisis of Many Faiths,”
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2002, p. A1.
Cal Thomas, “Their Sins only Start with Abuse,”
Baltimore Sun, June 19, 2002, p. 9A.
In the spring of 2002, when the sexual abuse scandal in the
Catholic Church was receiving unprecedented attention,
the Christian Science Monitor reported on the results of national
surveys by Christian Ministry Resources.
The conclusion:
“Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the
Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit
with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant"
Mark Clayton, “Sex Abuse Spans Spectrum of Churches,”
Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2002, p. 1.
I can quote you lots more citations.
There are many people who want to beat up my Church, and it does take time to dig past the rumours to the truth.
"), priestly celibacy, and finally, the all male priesthood.
