The Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal No One Is Talking About

Stop Baptist Predators has a article up at Sexual abuse of children crosses faith lines . However I don't want to talk about Protestant sexual abuse. I want to talk about the Catholic sex abuse problem no one is talking about. The main question I have is why not?

............It is difficult to come up with precise numbers regarding the sexual abuse of children by religious workers. Despite the media attention focused on one religious group, however, available evidence suggests the rates of abuse, from 2 percent to 5 percent – are similar across religious boundaries.

What we do know from hundreds of studies is that the dangers are the same.Abusive clergy and youth workers are drawn to working with children. In their own minds, many see the extra attention they devote to the children they abuse as a sign of caring. Religious institutions have long offered such workers not only access to young people, but lift them up as trusted representatives of God.........

Hmmm

I find it interesting in the Post Vatican II LAY INVOLVED Church no one seems concerned that clerics are the only ones being talked about. We have long long long been past the days where we had so many nuns, priests, and brothers to attend to our every need.

A lot of the Catholic voices that are most critical and yell about EMPOWER THE LAITY YES WE CAN don't seem too concerned that we are not seeing lack of reports of abuse that are decades old regarding CYO folks, CCD Teachers, Catholic Coaches and Teachers, etc etc etc.

Do Catholic Laity have some magic immunity to this evil that Protestant "Lay Folks" don't.

If a Priest is accused ,based one allegation decades ago, and has his named publicized why not Catholic teachers, CYO workers, Church volunteers, and various other folks?

How come we are not seeing this? Do we the Catholic Laity want two standards. One for you know those celibates and one for us?

Why is this not being discussed? So the only "sex abuse" that was covered up by Bishops just involved Clerics? DOUBTFUL.

Why the double standard. I am hearing a lot of talk about Clericalism but what about the laity? Where do we fit into this.