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Article originally prepared on : 27 December 2006
Protestants have their own clergy scandals
Weblog is getting deluged with letters about a recent article on what the clergy abuse scandal means for evangelicals.Many readers didn't like part of the article's report, which suggestedthat clergy abuse of minors is less common in Protestant churches thanit is in Roman Catholic parishes. Don't blame the messenger: That'swhat the interviewees and other reports said.
An Associated Pressreport, however, has an opposing view. "While data are sketchy, atleast one expert believes the incidence of clergy molesting youngchildren may be about as frequent'or infrequent'in Protestantism as itis in Catholicism," reports AP religion writer Richard N. Ostling. Theexpert is Penn State historian Philip Jenkins, who says Catholic casesget exaggerated and Protestant cases get ignored. Jenkins admits he hasno hard numbers to back up his case, but says neither do those who sayit's more common in Catholicism.
Actually, some hard numbers have surfaced from Christian Ministry Resources, the publisher of Church Law & Tax Report(the editor, Richard Hammar, was quoted in the earlier CT onlinearticle). "Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problemin the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit withchild sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the allegedabusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers," summarizes The Christian Science Monitor. "Over the past decade, the pace of child-abuse allegations against American churches has averaged 70 a week."
Weblog has had a lot on the clergy abuse scandals, but for regular updates, be sure to check out Ponyter.org's Clergy Abuse Tracker and Yahoo's full coverage area.
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