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TM2YC
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13-Jul-2014, 10:15 PM

This sounded odd... Pope Francis: '2%' of Catholic clergy are paedophiles'

...in the 90s sitcom Father Ted, there was a joke that was quite similar...

"If theres 100m priests in the world, and 10% of them are paedophiles, thats still only 10m." - Ted Crilly

...and to paraphrase a little, The Pope said much the same...

"If there's 417,553 thousand clergy in the world, and 2% of them are paedophiles, thats still only 8351 thousand." - The Pope

...great comic satire is saying the un-sayable 2 decades before it's acceptable. If 2% is the official Vatican number, then the real percentage is probably higher but still credit to Pope Francis for standing up and admitting this.