20 Bad Apples in KS? Small-Ball, Ms. Niles

This week, it's open season on the SSPX, I guess.  Many less-than-informed laymen have commenced fire at the Society, intimating or stating that it is in schism, while one very well-informed priest ("Z") has demonstrated that the Society is definitely NOT "schismatic."  Personally, I hold no brief for or against the Society; don't know any of their priests, and have never visited their local chapel, although I know a few folks who attend Mass there.

Now come the "perverts"!!! accusations, and Ms. Niles plays the percentage-game to paint SSPX as a houseful of homosexual predators.

...But considering how young and small the SSPX is (about 600 priests), the high percentage of abusers actually makes the rest of the Church look good in comparison. Sorry, but it's the truth....

She rattles on about "20 investigations" in Kansas.  Why sure!!  "Investigations" are just like "convictions"--or at least, that's the curveball she'd like everyone to swing at.  Often, "investigations" find probable cause, for sure.

But 20 is small-ball.

Maybe Ms. Niles should take a look at the little Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which has far fewer than 600 priests.  That Archdiocese had SEVENTY-NINE active investigations, 9 convictions, and 1 indictment (the priest committed suicide.)  THIRTY-NINE of those priests listed as "sued" or "accused" were removed from ministry (or would have been except for their death.)

So there were 49 convictions and/or removals from ministry in this one little Archdiocese.  Perhaps Ms. Niles would like to calculate the percentages here, too??