Bishops Accountability.Org Provide Statistics on Clergy Sex Abuse and Cover-Up in the Roman Catholic Church

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AtAGlance/data.htm#enabling_bishops

Some of their shocking findings are;

How many bishops have been accused of abuse of minors?

19 bishops in the United States have been accused of sexual abuse


Approximately two-thirds of sitting U.S. bishops were alleged in 2002 to have kept accused priests in ministry or moved accused priests to new assignments.

The best available study of bishops accused of enabling abuse is Two-Thirds of Bishops Let Accused Priests Work, by Brooks Egerton and Reese Dunklin (Dallas Morning News, June 12, 2002

During the meeting of the bishops in Dallas in 2002, I was president of the Federation of Christian Ministries and invited as a guest on CNN. I called for the resignation of all bishops who kept pedophile priests in ministry and/or covered up sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

Of the 109 bishops identified in the Dallas Morning News survey,
only 39 bishops (36%) are still managing the same diocese. Of the others:
11 have resigned,
41 have retired,
15 were promoted, and
3 died in office.