Sexual Abuse by Priests

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needs to consult with experts on this issue, including how to weed out potential molesters by using psychological profiling.[3] Another suggestion is reported to be that the Church and society are better off when abusive priests are kept in the priesthood but away from children.[4] Pope John Paul II has urged church officials to be fair when judging priests accused of sexual abuse, however stressed that the "predominant" need was to protect the faithful.[5] The scandals of sexual abuse by clergy has shaken the faith of many Catholics and ignited lawsuits and criminal probes that have tarnished many dioceses' reputations and harmed finances.[6]
Susan Hogan-Albach, who has been following the National Catholic Review Board of the problem of child sex abuse by priests, reports that the dioceses are not doing well in implementing safe-environment programs or in establishing codes of conduct for clergy and deacons who work with children.[7] Although the charter calls for outreach to ...

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groups, such as the Women's Ordination Conference who are calling for radical change as well as mainstream Catholics calling for organizational change.[14] One thing that seems certain is that the relationship between laity and hierarchy remains tense and difficult.[15]
In the 1998 book, 'Wolves with the Fold: Religious Leadership and the Abuses of Power,' Anson Shupe devotes several chapter to the sexual abuse of boys by Roman Catholic priests in the United States, as well as Canada and Ireland.[16] One parent of an abused child has become not only a writer and activist, but founder of a support group for victims and victims' parents of clergy abuse and speaks of her frustration in ...

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