Sentences with phrase «sex abuse crisis»

Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, has officially denied charges of sexual abuse spanning decades after his lawyers failed to sway a court to dismiss them.

«What was involved in the American clerical sex abuse crisis was the behavior of some 1.5 percent of the roughly 150,000 priests who served under hundreds of bishops in the course of half a century,» Steinfels writes.

In 2002, when the articles and cartoons about the Catholic sex abuse crisis reached a crescendo?

The international sex abuse crisis has involved revelations of the deep wounding of innocent children and their families by the sinful actions of individual priests and religious, sometimes enabled by the, at best, incompetence and, at worst, callous dereliction of duty of some members of the Church's hierarchy.

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court on Tuesday to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago.

Few issues are as continually being put before us as the tragic clerical sex abuse crisis that has ravaged the Catholic Church in recent decades.

I didn't speculate on this in the review, but it did seem that by placing his comments about the sex abuse crisis in that section, he might have been trying to suggest that he had worries, like those worries shared by the late Avery Cardinal Dulles and others, about a one - size - fits - all policy that applies to all those accused of any sort of sexual overtures to people under the age of eighteen.

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There were thirteen addresses and homilies, and we can group them by such subject areas as his view of America, divisions in the Church, the sex abuse crisis, education, and international relations.

There was, of course, intense interest in whether or how Benedict would address the sex abuse crisis.

In the aftermath of the sex abuse crisis, he urged bishops «to heal the wounds and to reinforce their relationship with their priests.»

Moreover, we took into account statistical analyses of the John Jay findings, including the fact that only 149 priests accounted for more than a quarter of all accusations, that can lead to the conclusion that the sex abuse crisis was significantly exaggerated.

The author covered the sex abuse crisis for Newsweek and has produced a big book, mainly about people and events in Boston, that will hold the attention of readers interested in a journalistic account that tries to be fair - minded, although it is not untouched by moments of legitimate, indeed necessary, outrage.

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in connection with the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis has appeared in court in Australia for the first time.

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, must stand trial on sexual assault charges, a court has ruled.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, will face two trials within months on sex crime allegations spanning decades, a court has heard.

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.

Still, some Vatican watchers say the church sex abuse crisis has helped shaped Penn State's reaction to last weekend's indictment.

But, as our culture continues to disintegrate the vacuity of its agenda and the need to turn back to God will become ever more obvious; if the Church has responded with deep, sincere and thoughtful repentance to the sex abuse crisis it will be with a compelling new humility, with less apparent self - righteousness and evasiveness, that Catholicism will be able to offer the truth which sets us free.

The most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis has appeared in an Australian court.