Sentences with phrase «minors by priests»

«Known occurrences of sexual abuse of minors by priests rose sharply during those decades, the report found, and the problem grew worse when the church's hierarchy responded by showing more care for the perpetrators than the victims.

As of May 9, 2013, the USCCB has counted 16,795 individuals who have alleged that they were abused as minors by priests.

It was with this view of the Church as a mirror of justice that he addressed the bishops of the United States in 1993 in a public letter that described the abuse of a minor by a priest as a «grave crime» and urged the imposition of canonical penalties.

Not exact matches

«I do not say this in any way to minimize the abuse of minors by Boston priests, which is heinous, or the serious mistakes made by the Church hierarchy in responding to it,» O'Malley said in the letter.

Bishop Barros was a protege of the Rev Fernando Karadima, a charismatic and politically powerful priest who was sanctioned by the Vatican for sexually abusing minors in 2011.

The book, «La Voluntad de no Saber» (Willing Not to be Aware), chronicles multiple cases of sexual abuse of minors committed by Marcial Maciel, a Mexican - born Roman Catholic priest who was influential at the Vatican.

(CNN)- Retired Pope Benedict XVI says he never tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests, breaking his post-retirement silence to address one of the greatest threats to his legacy as a church leader.

«This is what causes me distress and pain at the fact that some priests and bishops, by sexually abusing minors, violated their innocence and their own priestly vocation.

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.»

Anderson Cooper speaks with Richard Hoatson about a new report on abuse of minors by Catholic priests.

For Michael F. Whalen Jr., who has accused a priest of sexually abusing him as a child, yesterday «s action by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo to publicly identify 42 priests accused of sexual misconduct with minors is a good start.

This dramatized account of the uncovering of the widespread sexual abuse of minors committed by Catholic priests in Boston and greater Massachusetts follows a group of reporters from the Boston Globe — specifically members of the «Spotlight» team, the newspaper's investigative journalism branch.