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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.

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.

Not exact matches

Bishop Jim Moriarty offered his resignation in December amid criticism after the publication of the Murphy report on clerical sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.

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.

Victims of clerical sexual abuse planned rallies in Rome on Friday as cardinals held a day of reflection and prayer on the issue.

Sexual abuse thrived in the Anglican Church due to clerical naivety about exploitation risks and an «excessive... More

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

Verging on the incredible, in the week following the release of the NRB report, the Los Angeles Archdiocese issued a statement declaring: «The Church treated clerical sexual abuse primarily as a moral weakness and a sin.

Episcopal mishandling of complaints about clerical child abuse, one of the main factors underpinning Benedict XVI's decision to institute a visitation of the Irish Church in 2012, is certainly a factor contributing to a sense of institutional fault.

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.

A similar imagery of ownership was used during the Long Lent of 2002, in response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse and episcopal misgovernance.

«Amnesty has written to the Secretary of State to ask her establish a public inquiry into the state and church response to clerical child abuse in Northern Ireland.

Absent such a change in canon law, a bishop seeking to dismiss a priest will have to convince a canon court that the case warrants dismissal, and thus the zero tolerance policy amounts to nothing more than a declaration by the bishops that, because in their view all cases of sexual abuse warrant dismissal from the clerical state, they intend to seek this penalty in all cases.

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.

That allowed the NCR's guns to be turned on to an even larger target: «The cover - up is the product of secrecy, privilege and a lack of accountability that are major elements of the clerical culture in which the sex abuse scandal flourished... It was made worse because officials either ignored or downplayed the claims of victims and went to great lengths in many cases to protect the abusers.»

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

As for celibacy, if instances of clerical sexual abuse, including homosexual abuse, are as frequent in churches where the clergy can marry» and the evidence is that they are» celibacy would seem to be, at most, marginally related to the problems that produced the scandals.

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN)- A respected former Catholic bishop in Ireland is calling for an end to clerical celibacy in the wake of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the church worldwide, and says he finds it «heartbreaking» that some prospective priests turn away from the calling because of the celibacy rule.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

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

Few issues are as continually being put before us as the tragic clerical sex abuse crisis that has ravaged the Catholic Church in recent decades.

He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of life in some of the houses which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.

«I believe,» he concluded, «that optional celibacy is the best way out of this problem and that it could also — I hope — serve as a preventive measure against clerical sex abuses of children in the future.»

More recently the Church's pride in its priesthood has been severely undermined by the shockwaves of clerical sex - abuse, especially in the Western world.

Mueller had also been caught up in the controversy surrounding the Church's response to the clerical sex abuse scandal after his department was accused earlier this year of obstructing Francis's efforts to stop internal cover - ups of abuse.

All of whom, incidentally, believe that in covering up clerical sex abuse, they're doing the right thing «for Boston,» but whose handshakes and back - pats («it's a racket!»

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.