Child Abuse in the Catholic Church
Child Abuse in the Catholic Church | Homosexuality in the Priesthood Fosters Child Sexual Abuse
Rod Dreher is a senior writer for the National Review, a conservative journal of news and opinion.
Summary: Although questioning homosexuality in the priesthood is unpopular and many Catholics want to ignore the problem, the church must face the fact that a growing network of gay clergy is damaging the fabric of the Catholic Church. As the number of homosexual priests has increased, so have incidents of clergy sexual abuse of teenage boys. Indeed, because most victims are teenagers, not children, the problem is clearly not pedophilia per se but...
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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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