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Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests
Sex abuse and the Catholic Church
During the 1960s, and the following years, a: 'Sexual Revolution' occurred within the Western World. The Church
was not unaffected by the event with many priests leaving their ministry to marry (some with and some without Church
permission). These years co-insided with the turmoil within the Church while she was implementing large changes
following the Vatican II Council.
By the turn of the century, cases had come to light of individuals in the 1970s and 80s misusing
their positions of trust to hide their secret sinful abuse of children. This led to questions regarding how individual
bishops had tried to deal with this problem.
As a history site, we consider that these on-going contemporary revelations are too recent to be assessed in a
balanced way. It could be another decade or more before a factual and balanced picture of what occurred is available.
In the meantime we plan to provide links below to articles which may be of use to those gathering
insights into varying aspects of the history of this problem.
[A] A Response to Christopher Hitchens' The Great Catholic
Coverup (full version with references) by SEAN MURPHY
[B] The Church
must not bow to Freud by Mary Kenny See also [C, AF, AG]
[C] PIE and Selective
Outrage See also [B, AF, AG]
[D] Pope's Letter to Ireland
[E] The Pope and the Murphy
case: what the New York Times story didn't tell you
[F] Sexual abuse is society's
problem, too
[G] Treat The Pope Fairly
[H] Not a Cover up
[I] Keeping the Record straight
[J] Benedict XVI under attack
http://www.zenit.org/article-28750?l=english
http://www.zenit.org/article-28746?l=english
[K]Vatican defends decision not
to laicise priest who abused deaf children
By John Thavis
[L] Ireland - Facts and figures
[M] Sex Abuse in Catholic
Church was Homosexual Problem
[N] Abuse in School 100 Times Worse
than by Priests
[O] Sexual Abuse in Social Context: Catholic Clergy and other Professionals
[P] What went wrong by George Weigel.
[Q] the man, the motive, the media
[R] the
Pope's track record on abuse: looking better and better
[S] Cardinal Castrillon steps up
defense of silence on abuse as new evidence emerges
[T] a Vatican struggle
over abuse policy
[U] THE POPE, THE MEDIA, AND
THE SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDALS
[V] Homosexuality
and the Church Crisis
[W] The mindset
of priestly sexual abuse
[X] Peggy Noonan's Church
History
[Y] A Catholic Problem Only?
[Z] 10 Myths about
Priestly Pedophilia
[AA] The
New York Times and Pope Benedict XVI
[AB] Munich case: facts do not support
link to Pope
[AC] The Nature and Scope
of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors
by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States
[AD] New York
Times rips Pope, says he could have stopped abuse scandal in 1990s
[AE] Another vicious, inaccurate, and contradictory
New York Times attack on Pope Benedict
[AF] RC Scandal - Christian
Voice See also [C, B, AG]
[AG] Peter
Tatchell - Christian Voice See also [C, B, AF]
[AH] What
percentage of priests abuse?
Version: 7th October 2010
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