How big is the Catholic priest child molester problem? Try this on for size.

Monsignor William Lynn of the Philadelphia Archdiocese was convicted recently of child endangerment for covering up and/or reassigning thirty-seven (37) known or suspected child molester priests.

It is the first trial and conviction of a US Catholic Church official for their role in a cover up of this cult’s monumental disgrace. It will not be the last. He is facing 3 ½ to 7 years in prison for his role. He will be sentenced in August.  Here’s the whole story:
  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/06/jury-reaches-verdict-in-sex-abuse-trial-of-catholic-aide/1#.T-4rWRf2Zn4

Msr. Bill’s attention to detailed record keeping provides us, for the first time, with an insight to the scope and breadth of the perversion that infests the Catholic Church; the perversion that Catholic apologists keep insisting is a minuscule percentage of their brethren. 

Think about this:  There are eight-hundred priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese.  Msr. Bill’s list of thirty-seven represents 4.6% of the total.  But the likelihood that he was aware of every priest child molester in his realm is slim to none, after all, they don’t confess it to him, nor do they carry a sign.  It would be relatively safe to postulate that he knew of only 1/3^rd to 1/5^th  of the total number of molesters.  If it was the conservative 33% then the true total would equate to one-hundred eleven (111) child molester priests - 13.9% of the Philly priest population. 

There are approximately 41,000 Catholic priests in the US.  Assuming there isn’t anything special about the Philadelphia holy water supply or priest enlistment criteria, we can assume that 13.9% of all US priests are similarly inclined toward pedophilia.  That equates to 5,700 perv priests running rampant nation wide.

Gene G. Abel is an expert in child molestation.  In his 2001 The Stop Child Molestation Book  he states that pedophiles who molest male children average 10.2 victims each (twice the rate of those who molest girls).  Thus, the number of American children that were likely molested by today’s priests is 58,000!!  And of course the real number is much higher, since this doesn’t account for priests who retired or died decades ago. If they were included the number of victims would increase exponentially.

The estimated number of pedophiles in the US is 5% of the population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#cite_note-SetoReview-2

Source:    Seto MC.(2009) Pedophilia. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 5:391-407.
If we ignore the small percent of child molesting women, and remove the  female population from the calculation, male pedophiles would be roughly 10% of the population. If my conservative Philly estimate is anywhere close to on target this implies that Catholic priests are 39% more likely to be child molesters than the US male population as a whole.

And this is just the tip of the outrage.  There are 409,000 Catholic priests world wide. This could mean as many as 57,000 child molesting priests / over 570,000 child victims internationally just from the existing batch of Catholic clergy. 

Of course this isn’t a scientific analysis.  It is a postulation based on Msr. William Lynn’s records upon which he was convicted; a reasonable assumption of yet to be identified Philadelphia priestly perpetrators; and known statistics of child molester behavior and activity. But one thing is certain - the implications are staggering in terms of victims’ childhoods and adult lives being ruined by these “Men of God” who rape in the name of their God, and with a blind eye, or even a wink and a nod, from the Church hierarchy.

If only a small portion of my extrapolation is accurate, it would still be an epidemic of abuse of monumental proportion by a clique of damnable cloaked and gold encrusted shaman who use their position of trust, their elevated status as the agent of their man-god,  to prey upon innocent children who have already been abused by involuntary indoctrination into religion, fear of God’s retribution, and superstition.
And yet Catholic apologists continue to deny.  

One in particular Divine Word Radio http://www.divinewordradio.com/     http://www.facebook.com/DivineWordRadio   continues to insist it’s a very sad but virtually miniscule issue. I've seen it all:  it’s sometimes the victims own fault having seduced the good priest; or the accusers are out for money and that the Vatican is itself being raped by their invented allegations; or the curse of growing homosexuality in the secular world is at fault. [they equate homosexuality to child molestation, never mind the facts].  Besides, they tell us, the Vatican took steps years ago to clean house and set everything right. It’s a non-issue, blown way out of proportion.  The man called Divine World Radio makes a living defending the indefensible and pretending it's all OK, posting his excuses and deceptions incessantly on USA Today.com's religion section on behalf of the Church.. This buffoon and liar is as much a part of the Catholic Church's despicable behavior/problem as are the perv priests themselves, Msr. Bill Lynn's ilk, and the old fool who pulls the strings in the Vatican. 

If ever there was justification for the Xtian tradition of burning at the stake the prime candidates would be the enablers, perpetrators and apologists for this hypocritical cult of sexual repression and child abuse.  I'd gladly pay for the gasoline and strike the first match.

Better yet, sue  them into oblivion; hit them in their most sensitive part ... their treasury.  That  may be the key to the  beginning of the end for this accursed fraternity of deceivers and perverts.