Pope: Children are not their parents' property

SP4: Uh...HolinessJan 11th, 2009 - 20:30:03

...after the debacle in the United States, the power you have exerted over the upbringing of children in the past will never occur again.

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Unto OthersJan 12th, 2009 - 08:43:13

Uhhhh...I guess those awful parents that have abused, maimed, or killed their children will no longer have power over them as well.

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Sean the BlogonautJan 12th, 2009 - 12:06:42

'Your children are not your property, they belong to me'

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Theres so many Paedophile PriestsFeb 27th, 2009 - 19:23:38

hiding within the Church. I don't trust them near my children.

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Catholic sex abuse casesFeb 27th, 2009 - 19:33:55

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allegations of sexual abuse of children have been made against a variety of religious groups including but not exclusively Roman Catholic priests, monks, and nuns. Several major lawsuits were filed in 2001 alleging that priests had sexually abused minors.[1] Some priests resigned, others were defrocked or jailed,[2] and financial settlements totaling in the hundreds of millions of dollars were made with many victims.[1]. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned a comprehensive study that found that four percent of all priests who had served in the U.S. from 1950 to 2002 faced some sort of sexual accusation.[3][4] According to this report, common actions included touching adolescent males under their clothes and removal of clothing, but more serious acts were committed in many cases. The Church was widely criticized when it was discovered that some bishops knew about allegations and reassigned the accused instead of removing them,[1][5] although public school administrators engaged in a similar manner when dealing with accused teachers,[6]. Some bishops and psychiatrists noted that the prevailing psychology of the times suggested that people could be cured of such behavior through counseling.[5][7] Many of the abusive priests had received counseling before being reassigned.[4][8]

Contents [hide]
1 Church policies and attitudes
1.1 Order of silence in the 1960s
1.2 Legislation and media coverage
1.3 Recent Papal statements
2 Sexual abuse
2.1 John Jay Report
2.2 Ferns Report
3 Church actions
3.1 Abusers moved to different locations
3.2 Failure to report criminal acts to police
3.3 Allegations of systematic plots to conceal evidence
3.4 Payments to victims
4 Implications of the accusations
4.1 Seminary training
4.2 Declining standards explanation
4.3 Supply and demand explanation
4.4 Celibacy explanation
4.4.1 Advocacy for mandatory celibacy
4.5 Other Catholic teachings, practices
5 Abuse by priests in Catholic Orders
6 Catholic leadership resignations
7 Church actions in dealing with sex abuse cases
7.1 Apology and meeting with victims
7.2 Compensation payouts
7.3 Prevention
8 Bankruptcy
8.1 Government solution in Ireland
9 Continued allegations
10 Abuse in literature and film
11 See also
12 References
13 Additional reading
14 External links
14.1 General
14.2 Ireland
14.3 United States

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