" Let's step outside and settle this thing like men ," she said, and she was a lady. " You're spewing anti-Catholic rhetoric !" he insisted. "How can you criticize a bishop when you're an actor and everyone knows actors are perverts and nitwits ," she screamed. (That last gal had a point). These are all reactions to my post last week about Rod Dreher's article on Bishop Finn's Indictment. And above all, people are charging me with believing the biased media coverage of the scandal. This, at least, is not true. In fact, everything I say in this post will be taken not from a media account of the scandal , but from the independent report on it as commissioned by the diocese , the Graves Report, which you can read on your own here . So let's shove the media aside and see for ourselves what's contained in this internal diocesan report conducted by an independent firm. *** Fr. Shawn Ratigan was a priest of the diocese of Kansas Cit...
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I have been saying, based on the stories I hear from people, that, despite official statistics, there are as many male victims of childhood sexual abuse as there are female victims. My impression was that male homosexual pedophiles perpetrated more often--serially--than male heterosexual ones, for whom pedophilia was more a crime of convenience (e.g. when a man has access to his girlfriend's children). The study you cite would seem to confirm that.