Sentences with phrase «clerical abuse»

After that, perhaps they can pick a victim of clerical abuse, and then we can just call the whole last millennium a wash!

Major articles in Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine portray a people too bowed down under the burden of debt and a horrific clerical abuse scandal, to lift their heads let alone other people's spirits.

The most obvious way to ensure fewer instances of clerical abuse in the Catholic Church would be to see that those in charge of seminaries and rectories have a clear understanding of the role of the priest as father.

Joined by acclaimed «real - life to screen» writer Josh Singer, the film tells the remarkable true story of a team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe newspaper known as «Spotlight», who broke the story on clerical abuse in the Boston diocese in 2001.

She added: «The message is clear: victims demand a public inquiry into clerical abuse in Northern Ireland without any further delay.

Amnesty's Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan said: «To date, clerical abuse victims here have been let down, not just by the church, but also by the authorities.»

On the plane ride to Scotland, and throughout his visit, Benedict made clear how serious he was in combating clerical abuse.

I also see areas where the Reformers seem to have needed to challenge ecclesial authority to refute clerical abuses — sale of indulgences and offices — without considering the logical consequences of their justifications.

Francis created the commission in December 2013, responding to complaints that he had not prioritised the fight against clerical abuse and cover - up enough.

The report of the Irish government's inquiry into the place where a significant majority of clerical abuse took place, the educational reform schools from 1914 - 1999, was the catalyst for this whole crisis.

The work's title, Art History with Labor: 95 Theses, pays homage to Martin Luther's 1517 treatise protesting clerical abuses, particularly the notion that the pious could atone for their sins with donations to the church.

It will continue to smolder, flickering upon each new exposure of clerical abuse, and breaking momentarily into flames if a cardinal archbishop resigns or a bishop goes to jail.

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

Bishop Scicluna, currently archbishop of Valletta, is now something of a hero to survivors of sex abuse for having finally understood the dynamic of the clerical abuse scandal and vigorously prosecuted priests who raped and molested children.

Just like recent reports of abuse going back as far as 50 years media in Nazi Germany focussed on any clerical abuse they could find no matter how far back they had to look to find a new example.

That may seem obvious, but not obvious enough to prevent careless preachers and listeners from assuming that Hebrews 7:23, with its criticism of the former priests, has to do with the clerical abuses of Rome, or that the blindness in Mark 10 has to do with the blindness of the prereformed church.

The book also notes that, perhaps because of such procedures, new cases of clerical abuse «have virtually disappeared in recent times» (p28).

«The scandals that have arisen from the clerical abuse of minors have undermined the Church's moral authority to teach on sexual ethics.

We would simply question the proposal that perpetrating further injustice, in this case against the Cardinal, for a different agenda - in this case undermining the Church's «system of authority» - can in any way heal the deep wounds in Ireland, let alone help the victims of the terrible crimes of clerical abuse.

There are tragic victims, cover - ups, false allegations, demands for money, denials by those who can not face up to what has happened, campaigns by those who see tolerance of paedophilia as a liberal concept and by those who seek to use every anecdote, particularly of clerical abuse, to keep the story going and smear an entire group.

Brendan Gleeson is towering as a conscientious priest handed a death sentence by a victim of clerical abuse.