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Article: Revelations about predatory priests foster idea abuse is rampant.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 19, 2002
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PHILADELPHIA _ As the Roman Catholic Church grapples with a child sex-abuse scandal that seems to grow by the day, a question as obvious as it is awful keeps coming up:
Are priests more likely than other clergymen or laymen to molest minors?
Psychotherapists and scholars can offer nothing more definitive than educated opinions _ and those opinions differ sharply.
One view says child molestation is more prevalent among Catholic clerics because their insular, sexually repressive, male-dominated world promotes sexual transgressions and attracts people with psychological problems.
Another view says that child molestation is actually less ...