Sentences with phrase «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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vatican refuses to give UN panel full details of clerical se - x abuse cases Holy See angers campaigners by not disclosing information requested by UN committee on the rights of the child

Weigel fails, though, to prove his central thesis: that there is a link between the «Truce of 1968» and the clerical sexual - abuse crisis.

How well do they address problems raised by the clerical sexual - abuse crisis, as well as by the polarization of the Catholic culture wars?

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.

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

The Pope's top adviser on clerical sex abuse has implicitly rebuked the pontiff over his accusations of slander against Chilean abuse victims, saying that Francis»...

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.

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.

Evidence suggested that clerical figures suffered from an «inability» to spot grooming, believe holy men were capable of harming young people or understand those abused as children could suffer long - lasting damage.

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.»

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.

It may be time to return to the question of clerical child sex abuse, for the subject has moved on.

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 media reporting about the scandals afflicting many parts of the Church is not just fuelled by rightful anger at clerical scandals and abuses, but has been «metastasised into a full - scale assault on Catholicism itself» as George Weigel puts it.

The Holy Father's clear guidance is that the Church at large is still called upon «to enter a period of purification and repentance and of prayer for the victims of clerical child abuse».

According to the publisher's burb — presumably either approved or actually written by Cornwell — confession has «been a source of controversy and oppression, culminating... with the scandal of clerical child abuse.

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.

Pope Francis is to meet with two victims of Chile's military dictatorship during his upcoming trip and is not ruling out a private encounter with victims of clerical sex abuse.

Every Catholic ought to be outraged by this new non-directive approach to the issue of clerical child abuse.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

Today's Toronto Star breaks the story of Toronto law firm, McCague Borlack (which recently entered into a two - year alliance with British firm DAC Beachcroft which may eventually lead to a merger) and its attempt to stop what name partner Howard Borlack claims is abuse by some clerical or secretarial staff at his firm.

The kinds of clerical sexual abuse that men have experienced as children can create very serious PTSD.