 Just under 3% of the priests were the subject of ten or more allegations.The 149 priests who had more than 10 allegations against them accounted for 2,960 of the total number of allegations.In response to criticism that the Catholic hierarchy should have acted more quickly and decisively to remove priests accused of sexual misconduct, contemporary bishops have responded that the hierarchy was unaware until recent years of the danger in shuffling priests from one parish to another and in concealing the priests' problems from those they served.