“As a survey researcher who has studied Catholic reactions to news of allegations of clergy sexual abuse of minors since 2002, I have noticed that there is a detail about the crisis that seems to get distorted at times,” Mark M. Gray wrote last week in a blog post for CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. “In 2012, the last time we asked Catholics about the crisis in a national poll,” only “21% of adult Catholics” in the United States “could correctly identify that the abuse cases were more common before 1985 than since.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/priestly-celibacy-and-the-sex-abuse-crisis/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/priestly-celibacy-and-the-sex-abuse-crisis/
