The most numerate defenders of the Church have argued that its clergy are “no worse than other males,” but this seems very wrong. The John Jay Report found that 4% of U.S. clergy from 1950-2002 were accused of sexual abuse, which is far beyond the share of American males who ever faced such allegations. Given the Church’s vigorous efforts to silence such allegations, the reasonable conclusion is that true offenses were more than proportional to allegations. Clerical abuse is a rare scandal that’s probably bigger – not smaller – than it looks
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Vatican vs. Madison, by Bryan Caplan https://www.econlib.org/vatican-vs-madison/
