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	Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the late 20th century, and especially at the turn of the 21st, the Catholic Church in several countries was confronted with a series of allegations concerning sexual abuse of children under the legal age of consent ¹ by Catholic clergy and religious.
		The policy of Catholic clergy in dealing with the abuse, namely a failure to report what were criminal acts to the local police, and efforts to pressure the victims, their families and independent witnesses into not reporting the incidents to civil authorities.
		Paedophilia and child sex abuse are not always the same: a paedophile may practice sexual abstinence, and not everyone who sexually abuses a child is a paedophile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholic_priests'_sex_abuse_scandal (2769 words)

	Catholic sex abuse scandal widens in military
		WASHINGTON - Even as the Catholic Church has tried to put its sex abuse scandal behind it with fresh policies and investigations, new accusations have surfaced in the past year against 11 current or former priests who served as chaplains in the military.
		They include priests sent to prison for raping children, priests found guilty of abuse by juries in lawsuits or priests removed from their posts by the military or the church.
		The Catholic Church has been rocked by revelations that hundreds of priests have sexually abused parishioners and that church leaders often shifted abusive priests from assignment to assignment to cover up the assaults.
	www.snapnetwork.org /news/otherstates/scandal_in_military.htm (1560 words)

	usnews.com: News Briefing: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse (03/2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Catholic bishops are drafting a plan to reform the Catholic Church in America to present at a national meeting in Dallas.
		The Catholic Church is continuing to hold confidential the issue of HIV and AIDS among its priests.
		The Catholic Church is being criticized for its poor handling of the problem of child molestation by priests.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/briefings/priests0302.htm (934 words)

	Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These priests were moved around from diocese to diocese, given positions that limited their contact with children, or moved to administrative duties — but they usually found their way back into a parish, holding Mass and coming in contact with more potential victims.
		To support her contention, Shakeshaft compared the priest abuse data with data collected in a national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000.
		Catholic leaders especially are wondering why more coverage of the issue, as well as more action by government education officials, hasn't been forthcoming, in the weeks since the Education Week story.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/4/5/01552.shtml (1712 words)

	Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal exceeds $1 billion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among religious groups confronting abuse, the Catholic Church is the only one to release settlement figures covering decades.
		Catholics disagree over whether the church is being forced to pay too much for its failures.
		Barbara Blaine, founder of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, noted that most recent agreements have been reached before trial -- a sign, she said, that bishops know the true scope of the wrongdoing and are trying to minimize the cost.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05161/519558.stm (626 words)

	Dallas Morning News \| News for Dallas, Texas \| Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Catholic leaders in Minnesota, where Bishop Brom once headed the Diocese of Duluth, have paid a settlement to a former seminarian who alleged that he was coerced into sex.
		The sixth priest, the Rev. Joseph Brodnick, resigned in April as a hospital chaplain amid decades-old allegations.
		The priest was ordered to undergo treatment in 1993; two years later he was accused in lawsuits of fondling and having intercourse with two teenage girls who had sought his counseling in the 1970s.
	www.dallasnews.com /cgi-bin/bi/dallas/2002/priests.cgi (17128 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - The Catholic sex-abuse scandal - Friday \| September 6, 2002
		The friend in question is a highly regarded criminal lawyer in a large, heavily Catholic American city who has defended a number of priests accused of sex-related crimes over the last decade.
		Finally, there were priests who had done nothing improper, but were falsely accused.
		Despite all this, it remains clear that the behaviour of many of the guilty priests was genuinely scandalous and shameful, that many of the victims do indeed seem to have suffered grievous psychological harm, and that a number of bishops behaved inexcusably in shuffling known sex predators from parish to parish.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020906/cleisure/cleisure2.html (638 words)

	Sex Abuse Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Seven months into the greatest public crisis the Catholic Church in the United States has endured in its 200-year history, occasioned by shocking revelations of decades of clerical sex abuse, episcopal cover-ups, and hush-money settlements, one fact is asserting itself with more and more clarity: Amchurch’s lay-run church is emerging into the daylight.
		Catholic laity, joined by many editorial writers for major newspapers, radio talk show hosts, and TV talking heads, want bishops to resign en masse, are demanding jail for those who protected abusers, and are balking at providing money to bishops and their bloated bureaucracies.
		A major component of many stories of clerical sexual abuse, which have come to light in recent weeks, is the abuse of the new rites of Baptism and Confession, with victims charging that they were abused during "reconciliation" or in the baptismal pool.
	www.thewandererpress.com /a7-11-02.htm (1398 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| 'God wants you to love me'
		When her local priest discovered this, she claims, he zeroed in on her vulnerability and initiated a ritual of sexual abuse that lasted 10 years.
		Britain's leading investigator of sexual abuse in the Church is Margaret Kennedy, a former social worker who was a pioneer in raising the issue of child abuse in the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches.
		She recalls how the priest told her she would never understand the love of God if she didn't have sex with a man. She alleges that the man, who was married with children, forced her to have sex with him when his wife went to work.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1001664,00.html (1999 words)

	CNN.com - Catholic reports detail almost 11,000 abuse allegations - Feb. 27, 2004
		The nation's Catholic bishops Friday received two sobering reports on sex abuse by priests of minors, with one called a "shameful" tally of nearly 11,000 allegations against more than 4,000 priests and others under vows in the last half-century.
		The other report explored the causes of the scandal, highlighting two factors that it says contributed to the widespread problems -- seminaries' poor screening of candidates and the prevalence of a "gay subculture" in the all-male, ostensibly chaste world of priests.
		The allegations peaked in the 1970s, and the number of priests and others under vows to the church who were accused of abuse totaled 4,392, about 4 percent of all priests, the report said.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/02/27/church.abuse (914 words)

	CNN.com - Draft survey: 4,450 priests accused of sex abuse - Feb. 17, 2004
		The remaining 3,300 were not investigated because the priests involved had died by the time the allegation was made.
		The Dallas Charter is a plan developed by the conference in 2002 to protect children from sex abuse by priests.
		The head of Voice of the Faithful, a Catholic group formed in response to the priest sex abuse scandal, says some important information is missing from the draft report.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/02/16/church.abuse (781 words)

	Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church / Predator priests
		Four priests in particular stand out for the number of abuse claims or the seriousness of the charges against them.
		Ronald H. Paquin is the only Boston-area priest who has admitted guilt in a criminal molestation case, and is serving 12 to 15 years in prison for rape.
		In the case of almost every predator priest, church officials had reports of abusive behavior, but allowed the priests to remain in ministry, documents show.
	www.boston.com /globe/spotlight/abuse/predators (383 words)

	Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church
		Sex scandals have resulted in the resignations of 19 Roman Catholic prelates worldwide since 1990.
		Shaken by the abuse scandal, parishioners at St. Gerard's in Canton find strength in their own congregation.
		The abuse scandal has prompted frank discussion of the traditionally taboo subject of gays in the church.
	www.boston.com /globe/spotlight/abuse (384 words)

	Catholic World News : Study shows scope of US sex-abuse scandal
		Washington, Feb. 27, 2004 (CWNews.com) - Over 4,000 American Catholic priests have been charges with the sexual abuse of children in the past 50 years, according to a report to be released today by US bishops' conference.
		Sex-abuse charges were most commonly brought against priests ordained in the 1960s and 1970s, and among the priests ordained in 1970, one out of ten has been accused of molesting children.
		The John Jay study showed that only 14 percent of the incidents of sexual abuse reported to bishops were brought to the attention of local law-enforcement authorities, and 95 percent of the perpetrators avoided criminal charges.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=27941 (1470 words)

	Feminist Daily News 3/5/2002: Priests Sex Abuse Scandal Continues
		Cardinal Roger Mahony forced as many as a dozen priests suspected in cases of sex abuse in the Los Angeles Archdiocese to retire or to suspend their duties.
		Further, priests over the age of 62 received generous severance packages when they were asked to retire because of their involvement in incidents of sexual abuse.
		All of the priests had participated in psychological counseling, but experts have repeatedly warned that priests who have abused children in the past are at high risk for continuing their abusive behavior.
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6373 (514 words)

	Catholic World News : Sex-abuse scandal in Philippines involves priests with women
		B that a priest being with a woman is refreshing after what we have been through.
		The presentation of the sex abuse scandal by Fr.
		The sad news is that in spite of these well publicized scandals and continual breaches of the promise of priestly celibacy, the Vatican insists on maintaining the charade, and refuses to let its bishops and priests get married and live an honest active ministry in the Church.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=24828 (934 words)

	Useful Fools: Comment on The Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal - Facts and Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They should be turned over to the authorities and the Catholic Church should cooperate with the authorities in a full investigation, and if need be, tried by their peers and if found guilty, serve the sentence handed down to them.
		IMO, allowing priests to marry may curve a lot of these problems and I haven’t read anywhere in the Bible where a pastor is required to be celibate.
		However, marriage does nothing for homophilic priests, and the Catholic church expects priests and nuns to "marry the Church" as I understand it.
	www.tinyvital.com /cgi-bin/jrmcomments.cgi?entry_id=841 (4078 words)

	Bernard Cardinal Law biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bernard Francis Cardinal Law (born November 4, 1931 in Torreón, Mexico) became archbishop of the Catholic Church's Boston archdiocese in 1984.
		These crimes are now part of a larger Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal in America.
		On May 27, 2004 Cardinal Law was appointed by Pope John Paul II to be archpriest of Saint Mary Major Basilica, an honorary ceremonial post in Rome.
	bernard-cardinal-law.biography.ms (214 words)

	Useful Fools: The Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal - Facts and Perspective
		It is important to understand the difference between abuse of pre-adolescent children and the abuse of adolescents.
		The reasoning was that while homosexual behavior is strongly prohibited, a priest takes vows to remain chaste, and hence a homophile priest (one who has homosexual desires) is as doctrinally as acceptable as a heterophile priest.
		The rise in “child molestation” in the American Catholic Church is a result of the increase of pederasts in the priesthood, but the rate among school teachers is even higher.
	www.tinyvital.com /BlogArchives/000841.html (4988 words)

	Giving & Sharing Newsletter 67
		In I Samuel 22:10, the priest gave David victuals, since he was hungry, chapter 21.
		The worst abuse I ever received was when I was working in the Business Office of Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas.
		I received a phone call, and the moment I began stuttering, I was inundated with derisive abuse.
	www.giveshare.org /newsletter/newsletter67.html (3410 words)

	Roman Catholic Church Removes Two Priests Linked To Sex Abuse Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two priests can no longer perform church ceremonies, wear clerical garb or get financial support from the church.
		The church is saying it is definitely serious about protecting children and everyone else from sex abuse.
		While one abuse victim says the church is more concerned with protecting its image, the head of the Tucson diocese implies he understands why victims would be cynical.
	www.rickross.com /reference/clergy/clergy309.html (377 words)

	Goodbye! Good Men by Michael S. Rose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He uncovers how radical liberalism, like that found on many college campuses, has infiltrated the Catholic Church and tried to overthrow her traditional beliefs, standards, and disciplines – especially Church teachings on sexuality.
		In bringing the "sexual revolution" into the Church, liberals have welcomed – even preferred – radicalized active homosexuals to orthodox seminarians in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance." That "tolerance" has now been exposed as a toleration of criminal acts.
		A riveting work of extraordinary reporting, Michael S. Rose shows how the very institutions charged with inculcating Catholic theology and discipline have come to prefer gay priests to straight ones, pop psychology to religious devotion, and Playboy to the pope.
	www.goodbyegoodmen.com (900 words)

	Articles - Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	www.gaple.com /articles/Roman_Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_scandal (2587 words)

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