Child Abuse in the Catholic Church
Child Abuse in the Catholic Church | Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Should Be Treated as a Crime
Thomas Szasz is a professor of psychiatry emeritus at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Szasz is a controversial figure in psychiatry since the publication of his book The Myth of Mental Illness.
Summary: Priests who have sexually abused children and the cardinals who fail to turn these priests over to the authorities try to escape responsibility for these reprehensible acts by defining child sexual abuse as a disease rather than a crime. Unfortunately, those who classify child sexual abuse as a disease...
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Table of Contents
- Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An Overview
- A Message from the Pope on the Child Sexual Abuse Crisis
- Three Types of Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
- The Celibacy Requirement for Priests Contributes to Child Sexual Abuse
- The Celibacy Requirement for Priests Does Not Contribute to Child Sexual Abuse
- Practices Within the Catholic Hierarchy Encourage Child Sexual Abuse
- The Catholic Church’s Response to Child Sexual Abuse Is Adequate
- The Catholic Church’s Response to Child Sexual Abuse Is Inadequate
- Zero Tolerance of Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Is Unfair and Un-Catholic
- The Church’s Zero-Tolerance Policy Is Unfair to Victims
- Homosexuality in the Priesthood Fosters Child Sexual Abuse
- Catholic Bishops Must Reform to Resolve the Child Sexual Abuse Crisis
- Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Should Be Treated as a Crime
- The Costs of Child Sexual Abuse Litigation Threaten the Catholic Church
- A Victim Speaks Out
- A Nonabusing Priest Speaks Out
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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