Ross Douthat trys to explain the pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church and while trying to minimize the problem he drops this nugget:
Philip Lawler claims that while less than five percent of priests were involved in actual abuse, over two-thirds of bishops were involved in covering it up.) I suspect it isn’t a coincidence that the worst of the priest-abuse scandals have been concentrated in Ireland and America — and indeed, in Boston, the most Irish of American cities
If five-percent of a group is molesting children it seems that group might have a problem. The question that has never been asked about the pedophile scandal is whether pedophiles are attracted to careers in the catholic church, or do careers in the church turn people into pedophiles.