Sex Offender Information has dozens of news stories offered

as a service to the community to heighten awareness about Sex Offenders.  Hopefully, this site will raise the level of precaution necessary to reduce the number violations to women and children, and likewise, reduce the number of offenders.

Not surprisingly, it picked up the Press TV account of the German Jesuits and abused school boys,

No end to German Jesuit-run school’s sex scandal

as reported here yesterday.

But that was yesterday for the sex-offender site also.  Today, the German Jesuits did not even make its front page, which has 10 items, none of them about German Jesuits or any other priest or Catholic institution.  Nor does its next page or the one after that.

Not all are about pederasty, to be sure, nor is there any specialization in religion-related abuse.  A bunch of sites with clergy abuse as its focus are found by Google, including Bishop Accountability dot org, where veteran religion reporter Kathy Shaw holds forth (and is read by Vatican biggies among others, she has told me).

Another site, with items mostly about Catholic abuse but also an Amish (!) cover-up and an Albany NY rabbi (!!), is Clergy Abuse, reporting findings of the Rick A. Ross Institute, founded by a cult expert.

And StopBaptistPredators.org: Shining light on Baptist clergy sex abuse is self-explanatory.

But emphasis in mainstream media is on Catholics, as we know.  And I can see why, allowing for knee-jerk response by some, it should be.  It’s a matter among other things of high expectations dashed by grim reality.

Catholics (and others) expect more of the Catholic Church, and when they don’t get it, it’s news.  Big news.  That’s a compliment.  If it were not shocking that priests hit on little boys or young men, where would we be?  God help us if we took it for granted, as some were always prepared to do and more are prepared to do the more they read.

The Baptists have it right.  Shining light on such stuff is very important for all concerned.