A RC follower recently told me that because of recent RC reforms that "a child is less likely to be abused by a Catholic priest then abused by the members of almost any other profession.

Comment: Maybe so, but,is it not a little too late?

As to the "ofen" RC quoted" 5 percent RC priest child sex abuse figure,(I have also seen this # suspiciously quoted as finely as 5.1%) compared to a higher percentage liklihood of a child being sexually abused in the general population. Is this the best aspiration that the RC church can offer that "if you were one of us,(and possibly abused), you were less worse off than the general folks abused in society?" Kind of like saying "I beat my wife less often than my skuzzy beer slugging neighbour."

(BTW, considering the #s of priests in the world...then add on the ones who got away with it without being reported or found out...and considering sexual abuse reporting is low, and possibly even lower in the RC church (with the stigma).., that's a lot of kinky priests)