Sentences with phrase «percent of priests»

Only < than 1 percent of priests have ever abused a child, far less on a percentage basis than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.

Not exact matches

About 1 percent of parishes, 549, were without a resident priest in 1965.

But more than 1.5 billion Orthodox and Catholics, 75 percent of Christendom, believe that Christ Himself gave the apostles, their successors and priests the ability to forgive sin on His behalf and His Church.

The John Jay Report revealed that a full 70 percent of the claimants against Catholic priests came forward not in the 1960s to 1980s, when the abuse was claimed to have occurred, but in 2002, when Church institutions were forced into «blanket settlements.»

However, you should really also add the percent of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to public schools).

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

This plain diocesan priest did enjoy the foreword to the new edition by Member of Parliament David Alton in which he underscores the importance of ECT for sectarian strife in Northern Ireland and for evangelization in England, where less than 10 percent of the population attends church.

Furthermore, this tithe paid to the Levitical priests and the community poor was not a tithe from the total number of the flock and herd, nor was it even ten percent of the total number of newborns.

Once again, the archbishops, priests, and political rulers based this tax off of the Mosaic principle of the ten percent tithe.

These factors provide a bit more specificity and precision to the more innocuous» sounding proposition that 1.5 percent of 150,000 priests under hundreds of bishops engaged in sexual abuse over the course of half a century.

Some may conclude that 1.5 percent of 150,000 priests over the course of half a century is not such a big deal.