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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – catholic): Asked if the Holy See was succeeding in crushing the problem of pedophilia in the Church, Herranz said, "The drama of pedophilia is a problem that doesn’t regard just priests of the Catholic Church, but the entire society. It’s enough to look on the Internet. I don’t understand why it’s talked about only with the Church, as if somebody wants to sully its image in order to take away its moral force." The reporter then said that priestly pedophilia in the American Church was a reality that couldn’t be ignored. Proving the archbishop’s point. "That’s true," Herranz responded. "But pedophilia is only minimally identified with the Church, touching scarcely one percent of priests. Meanwhile for other categories of persons, the percentages are much higher. A fact you will NEVER see or hear in the secular media. Not only are they higher in society, but the figures often reported about the church in the media are overblown anyway, as they inaccurately include priestly trysts with teenage girls, 15, 16, 17-year-olds, in their pedophilia stats. They thus make it seem like the incidence of homosexual pedophiliac priests is much higher than it actually is. *** With an admitted 80 pedophiliac priests in Boston alone, the rate is nothing to sneeze at. Also, together Fr. James A. Porter and Fr. John Geoghan reportedly molested over 330 children during their careers, so the damage done by 80 such priests must be mind-boggling. You have identified *two* ‘pedophiliac’ priests. Out of those 80, how many of them molested pre-pubescent children? Two?
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