Where do I get my five percent number? www.bishop.accountability.org (click) has a data page that gives pretty good information. The overall number they give is 5.1 percent of US priests were accused of child molestation, but some dioceses had ten percent.

Jim, I know that politicians commit political suicide in the United States if they oppose the spending of money to punish criminals. It's a favorite tactic of failed politicians, to hit hard on crime because nobody can dare oppose them. But the fact of the matter is that crime is not the only issue that confronts us, and crime is irrelevant to most of us, most of the time.

The crime that took place in the Catholic Church is a horrible thing - but it does not justify your irrational blanket condemnations.

-Joe Offer-