Sentences with phrase «of clerical sexual abuse»

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

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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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?

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.

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.

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.»