DVD Review by Kam Williams Pedophile Priests Shown Sympathy in South American Drama The Oscar - winning Best Picture Spotlight addressed the problem
of pedophilia in the priesthood from the point of view of the victims.
I frankly don't care about the particular theology of the CC and I frankly don't care about how the incidence
of pedophilia within the CC compares to the general rates in other sects or the public at large.
But since you brought it up, yes there are many recorded
cases of pedophilia in church denominations other than the RCC, including Baptist.
In 1998, however, a meta - analysis in Psychological Bulletin found that most
victims of pedophilia turned out only «slightly less well adjusted» than the average adult, with the probability of maladjustment being influenced by the degree of physical force or coercion present in pedophilic encounters.
I'm very uncomfortable with the official hierarchical church, often very ashamed of it, particularly lately — ashamed not only
of the pedophilia scandal, but of the behavior of the American hierarchy during the presidential election.
«At no time while McCormack was a seminarian at Mundelein did I receive any
allegation of pedophilia or child molestation against him,» Kicanas said in a detailed e-mail interview with the National Catholic Register.
Let the bishops worry a little about the longstanding problem
of pedophilia by priests, which they continue to overlook and shove under the carpet.
An eerily - unsettling
examination of pedophilia from the perspective of the perpetrators suggesting that these sex offenders might not be monsters, but merely misunderstood children of God.
«The
prevalence of pedophilia in the general population is not known, [30][63] but is estimated to be lower than 5 % among adult men.
This may come as a suprise to you, but many people in the world do not support organizations that not only had an
pandemic of pedophilia cases, but the organization itself was more concerned on hiding the criminals and silencing the victims rather that putting an end to the problem.
That's the aspect, honestly, that weighs on me the most with any sexual assault case and institutional cover -
up of pedophilia.
The parallels are what have always paralleled the
Evils of pedophilia and infanticide - the Evils of Abortion and Contraception.
Finally, while condemning homosexuality (but not homosexuals) and female ordination, the author shies away from the word «pedophile» (which appears in only two paragraphs), failing to discuss the
germination of pedophilia among the priests of America's Greatest Generation.
This
phase of the pedophilia panic, which wrought far more destruction by the numbers than had the daycare and preschool cases, hardly seems an initiative of the Reagan administration for the restoration of patriarchy.
After phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network revealed that the Pope and virtually all Archbishops were acutely aware of the
depth of the pedophilia problem since the 1950s, sweeping new policies were implemented under President Gibbs» administration (2040 - 2048).
And in terms of being obsolete, it is the priesthood, with its profound
excesses of pedophilia and gross misuse of power, that needs reform, not the sisters.
In 2011 the Church remains a scandal in spite of the profound
lack of pedophilia in the ranks compared to any other large group or society in general.
Perhaps most poignantly, one reader who read the book in
light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy about them says, tentatively but tellingly: «With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the fiction is actually true.»
next up = «CNN believes the
beauty of pedophilia would have been supported by MLK» Next year, that will be their headline.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the NCAA has demonstrated moral superiority to the Catholic church on the
issue of pedophilia?
Over the past few weeks, a scandal of Penn State proportions has been surfacing across the pond at the BBC, where accusations of a vast
web of pedophilia and sex...
And if the slippery slope of moral relativism is some how your argument, it is very typical to jump right to the
extreme of pedophilia as if it is in any way related.
Societal ignorance about the
nature of pedophilia is another thing that keeps victims from coming forward.
Your
claim of pedophilia is a long ways from truth though... statutory rape maybe, inappropriate conduct most likely, but not pedophilia.
Or have you not read the articles on the
coverup of pedophilia within the orthodox community in Brooklyn?
Milo Yiannopoulos, a polemical Breitbart editor and unapologetic defender of the alt - right, lost both his speaking post at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference and his book deal after publication of a video in which he condones sexual relations with boys as young as 13 and laughs off the
seriousness of pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests.
Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos spoke
tolerantly of pedophilia in video clips shared ahead of his speaking engagement at next week's Conservative Political Action Conference.
(In French with subtitles) William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (Unrated) Bio-pic about Godfather of the Beat Generation featuring recently found footage and interviews with friends and contemporaries of the author of «Naked Lunch,» the notorious 1959 novel banned in Boston because of
descriptions of pedophilia which subsequently became the subject of a famous Federal obscenity trial.
Here, we have incest
instead of pedophilia, with a man erotically massaging his grown son's private parts.
His predicament is both a
reprise of the pedophilia theme that Solondz addressed so brilliantly in Happiness and a real pie in the face for Mark, who was so bookishly determined to get into a good school and better himself in Dollhouse.
The filmmakers stack the deck against him, giving him the cliché effeminate qualities that always characterize cowardly Roman dictators, while also giving him hints of incestuous desire for his sister and even the
suggestion of pedophilia.
But that never happens; instead, Volume II is little more than the writer - director clumsily offering a checklist of sexual mores — threesomes, lesbianism, sadomasochism, even
talk of pedophilia — and descending further into his debasement of everyone and everything.
Yes, the
topic of pedophilia is unsettling, but the fact that Mads» character is wrongly accused — and the fact the viewer knows it — actually softens that portion of it.