They do that, don't they? They managed to root it all out in a couple of decades!
Posted on 03/24/2014 9:46:53 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
Bishop Frank Caggiano has agreed to meet with representatives of national and local victim support groups who Wednesday called for him to hire an outside firm to investigate two priests who have been accused in the past of sex abuse -- one who admitted he hid more than 40 years of abuse complaints.
But Barbara Blaine, president of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said although she is willing to meet with Caggiano, she would prefer to do so after he agrees to the investigation.
"History has shown that meetings don't always bear fruit, but actions speak louder than words," Blaine said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctpost.com ...
They do that, don't they? They managed to root it all out in a couple of decades!
you said “You are now babbling incoherently about how long ago the bulk of the incidents happened.”
No it would not. That would be the researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who you claim are babbling incoherently.
Try reading the study an buy yourself a clue.
John Jay College Reports No Single Cause, Predictor of Clergy Abuse
May 18, 2011, Washington, DC—A landmark study by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, which examined the causes and context of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church, concluded that there was no single cause or predictor of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. The report added that that situational factors and opportunity to abuse played a significant role in the onset and continuation of abusive acts.
“The bulk of cases occurred decades ago,” said Karen Terry, PhD., John Jay’s principal investigator for the report. “The increased frequency of abuse in the 1960s and 1970s was consistent with the patterns of increased deviance of society during that time. “She also stated that “social influences intersected with vulnerabilities of individual priests whose preparation for a life of celibacy was inadequate at that time.” Terry also said that neither celibacy nor homosexuality were causes of the abuse, and that priest candidates who would later abuse could not be distinguished by psychological test data, developmental and sexual history data, intelligence data, or experience in priesthood. The development of human formation components of seminary preparation for priesthood is associated with the continued low levels of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the United States, she said.
The study also found that the initial, mid-1980s response of bishops to allegations of abuse was to concentrate on getting help for the priest-abusers. Despite the development of a comprehensive plan for response to victims and the harms of sexual abuse by the mid-1990s, diocesan implementation was not consistent or thorough at that time. Yet, the decrease in incidence of sexual abuse cases by clergy was more rapid than the overall societal patterns.
The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010 report by a John Jay College research team was made public May 18 in Washington. Terry presented the report to Diane Knight, CMSW, Chair of the National Review Board, a group of lay Catholics who oversaw the project and to Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Washington, who chairs the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People.
The report can be found here: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Causes-and-Context-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-in-the-United-States-1950-2010.pdf
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you are consistently anti-Catholic bigot every opportunity you get.
Try buying yourself a clue and read the definitive study on clergy abuse by the John Jay School of Law.
but you won’t do that because you would never let a good lie be confused by actual facts.
Public school teachers are much worse.
Yes. If someone is engaging in homosexual activity, he is clearly unfit for the priesthood. It's outrageous for the laity to be sacrificing and tithing to unknowingly fund the illicit lifestyles of priests who are living the gay lifestyle and priests who promote the gay agenda while certain bishops look the other way.
For instance, Fr. Matthew Despard has written a book exposing the homosexual networks he encountered in Scotland (which went all the way up to Cardinal O'Brien who was forced to resign).
THAT is the issue that most people are having problems with.
It's the cover up and hiding it when they knew it was happening that is what's most unacceptable.
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Do you ever get the impression that some people actually wanted the cover-ups to continue, so as not to damage their [church's] reputation?
yes it is usually male on male. However, it is not between adults, it is normally a priest molestin g an older boy....he gays call him a chicken hawk. That having been said, the Catholic Clergy is at the bottom of the list when it comes to clergy child abuse...
Yes. That is clear.
Yes, that is the sex scandal that Catholic church leadership is associated with, male on male, you say it is mostly involving young males, but that is the homosexual way.
I think we can assume that with all that homosexuality, that not all of it involves the leaders preying on boys from outside their unique culture and lifestyle, there must be some going on among and between the leaders themselves.
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