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資料來源:http://www.traditioninaction.org/bkreviews/A_013br_HP_NoStone.htm
Third, granted that some data are shocking – the admitted number of pedophile priests was 4,450 abusing some approximately 11,000 children. The financial data, however, that reported $572 million in legal damages and attorneys』 fees to settle lawsuits seems to me clearly fabricated.
Indeed, in April 2002, America magazine, a well informed Jesuit organ, had already estimated that from 1985 to early 2002 (that is, 17 years), the costs of Church out-of-court payments added to the jury awards were reaching the milestone of $1 billion dollar (April 22, 2002, p. 3). Two years later, the John Jay report gives us a figure for the more extensive period of 1950 – 2002 (that is, 52 years) that is almost half of that amount! It is hard to believe this figure wasn』t falsified by the company at hire just to please the Bishops. And if it was, how seriously can we take the data it collected on other topics?
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