(NewsBusters) - In a stunning ten-page declaration recently submitted to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, veteran attorney Donald H. Steier stated that his investigations into claims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have uncovered vast fraud and that his probes have revealed that many accusations are completely false.THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: So where is the press? I mean where is the outraged press? Where is the media frenzy and news extravaganzas? Where is the live coverage of the next bishops' conference? What's that? Not a peep from the news media? Not even a single report on the national evening news? Why does this not surprise me?
Counselor Steier has played a role in over one hundred investigations involving Catholic clergy in Los Angeles. In his missive Mr. Steier relayed, "One retired F.B.I. agent who worked with me to investigate many claims in the Clergy Cases told me, in his opinion, about ONE-HALF of the claims made in the Clergy Cases were either entirely false or so greatly exaggerated that the truth would not have supported a prosecutable claim for childhood sexual abuse" (capital letters are his).
Mr. Steier also added, "In several cases my investigation has provided objective information that could not be reconciled with the truthfulness of the subjective allegations. In other words, in many cases objective facts showed that accusations were false."
Mr. Steier's declaration is a stunner. He is as experienced as anyone in studying the claims of abuse against Catholic clergy in the Los Angeles area.
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If you've been reading this blog for the last few years, you would be one of the few people in America who has actually been educated on this matter. Only THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT blog, and other similar Catholic media outlets, have bothered to report the truth in perspective. If you're a regular reader here, congratulations, your knowledge has just been vindicated by NewsBusters. But don't expect the anti-Catholic mainstream news media to report a word of it.
Just to review, The Catholic Knight has consistently reported that less than 5% of Catholic clergy had credible accusations of sexual abuse made against them over the last 50 years. That means 95% of Catholic clergy have had NO credible accusations made against them - none, nill, zip, nothing! So the untold story is that 95% of all Catholic clergy are completely innocent, but of course, you would never know that by watching the mainstream news media.
Now let's move on. This recent report from Los Angeles confirms what many of us have suspected all along. No less than half of all credible accusations against Catholic clergy are fraudulent. This type of fraud may be due to mental illness on the part of the alleged "victim," or it could be as insidious as deliberate fraud in an attempt to extort money from the Church. In both cases the accused priest becomes the real victim here, but in the latter case, what we have going on is nothing less than criminal activity on the part of the alleged sex-abuse "victim." Does the mainstream news media report any of this? Of course not.
So what this means is our statistic of less than 5% can now be safely reduced to less than 2.5%. What I'm saying here is less than 2.5% of Catholic clergy are likely guilty of sexual abuse, while about 2.5% have been falsely accused, and the remaining 95% of clergy have had no credible accusations made against them at all. These are the statistical FACTS, as best as we can ascertain them, and they are considerably different than what the mainstream news media has been reporting for the last seven to eight years.
Once again the evidence shows that if you get the lion's share of your news from any of the syndicated television news outlets (CNN, FoxNews, ABC, NBC & CBS) you remain considerably and consistently uninformed. Perhaps even the word "indoctrinated" might be a better fit. If you want good news, you have to work for it. Cruse the Internet to find independent news outlets, and blogs like this one.
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I'm not at all suprised by the numbers Sir Knight.
In statistics, when you have an acceptable range of values of a standard population, 95% of values fall within 2 standard deviations from the mean (average). Only 5% deviate outside those limits. Makes me wonder whether statistics is a natural law from God himself.
wow now i bet all the people who were condemning the church over this issue feel really stupid now!
I highly doubt that Tabitha. It's far more likely those who condemn the Church will simply ignore this report and go on condemning it as if it never came out. This is how it will be done in the mainstream news media anyway. They never let the facts get in the way of scandalous propaganda.
Excerpts of an article written by non-Catholic Sam Miller - a prominent Cleveland Jewish businessman:
"Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today in the United States , namely the Catholic Church?
Do you know - the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to that Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. The graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%.
The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students..
The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people - not just Catholics - in the United States today.
But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this country. They have blamed the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic Church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the institution of marriage.
Let me give you some figures that Catholics should know and remember. For example, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed admitted to sexual intercourse with a parishioner; 38% acknowledged other inappropriate sexual contact in a study by the United Methodist Church , 41.8% of clergy women reported unwanted sexual behavior; 17% of laywomen have been sexually harassed.
Meanwhile, 1.7% of the Catholic clergy has been found guilty of pedophilia. 10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of pedophilia. This is not a Catholic Problem.
A study of American priests showed that most are happy in the priesthood and find it even better than they had expected, and that most, if given the choice, would choose to be priests again in face of all this obnoxious PR the church has been receiving.
The Catholic Church is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been hurt by a small number of wayward priests that have probably been totally weeded out by now.
Walk with your shoulders high and you head higher. Be a proud member of the most important non-governmental agency in the United States .
Then remember what Jeremiah said: 'Stand by the roads, and look and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, and find rest for your souls'. Be proud to speak up for your faith with pride and reverence and learn what your Church does for all other religions."
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