By AP/KWMU
St. Louis, MO – The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that's one percent higher than the nationwide figure of accused clergy.
The St. Louis archdiocese says 70 of its 1,210 priests over that five-decade period have been accused of sexually
misconduct involving children. And it says it paid out $2.1 million in related costs. In some cases, that's tens of millions of dollars less than the amout spent by other dioceses.
The study is part of a larger examination of reported clergy sexual misconduct over that period in the nation's 195 Catholic dioceses and eparchies.