Sentences with phrase «on clerical abuse»

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.

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.

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

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.

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»...

On the plane ride to Scotland, and throughout his visit, Benedict made clear how serious he was in combating clerical abuse.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

And to assert, without offering evidence, that Catholicism's rules on clerical celibacy have themselves caused the sex abuse crisis — a crisis that has, no doubt, many causes — is not what one expects from a judge.