Sentences with phrase «clerical sexual abuse»

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

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.

A gay survivor of clerical sexual abuse who had an audience with Pope Francis says the pontiff told him «God made you like this and loves you like this.»

This is the story of the 2002 Boston Globe expose on the systemic clerical sexual abuse of children in the Boston area, which opened the floodgates for 249 priests to be publicly accused of molestation within the Archdiocese, for almost 1500 victims to come forward and which led to the resignation of Boston's Cardinal Bernard Francis Law.

Victims of clerical sexual abuse will find it easier to bring compensation claims against the Catholic Church after a judge ruled it can be held responsible for the wrongdoings of its priests.

While most commentators agree that there really are two scandals — clerical sexual abuse itself and the subsequent episcopal dereliction — they differ on their diagnoses of both the causes and the appropriate remedies.

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.

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.