The academy award movie, “Spotlight” portrays the ongoing abuse of children, at the hands of Catholic priest as epidemic.
“When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world”
SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spotlight_2015/
The find explores the reality of ongoing sexual abuse by Catholic priest. The assumption reaffirms the prevailing notion that the church mandate for celibacy continues to attract paedophiles to the priesthood. The John Jay Report found sexual abuse by Catholic priests, “around 81% of these victims were male”.
In the early 2000s, several priest molestation scandals broke that have rippled worldwide. Many cases were not prosecutable, as the evidence uncovered was from so long ago that the Statute of Limitations had expired. As a result of some of the cases, there was a push to alter these statutes so that adults who were molested as children would have a chance to testify and seek justice years after the event. In just one Australian state, Victoria, it is estimated between 600 and 10,000 children were abused since the 1930s.[3] It is estimated that at least 4% of Roman Catholic priests serving in the United States during the first half of the 20th Century abused minors.
.............it's entirely unnatural to force a person to be "celibate?" Perhaps the priesthood attracts child molesters because of its unnatural structure that, by eliminating healthy sexuality, encourages perversion and also covers it up?
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_the_Roman_Catholic_Church
The Catholic church’s position on priest celibacy has always been cloaked in the assumption of moral purity and asceticism, yet priests were permitted to marry until the twelfth century. Lawrence Cunningham, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, said the mandatory celibacy rules were adopted for many reasons, both theological and practical. Among the latter, he said, was the need to avoid claims on church property by priests’ offspring.
A 2005 article in the conservative Irish weekly the Western People proposed that clerical celibacy contributed to the abuse problem by suggesting that the institution of celibacy has created a "morally superior" status that is easily misapplied by abusive priests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
Many who become priests are homosexuals with sexual developmental disorders; these men choose the priesthood to avoid exposure of their homosexuality. The priesthood has attracted a disproportionate number of men who desire a life free of sexual censorship, yet often they surreptitiously act out their sexual confusion on innocent children, many who revere priests and have, in past times, refused to expose local priest, afraid to speak out against the Catholic church; they are usually too ashamed to report sexual misconduct by priests because of personal guilt.
Jason Berry, author of Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children, says celibacy can be a cloak of supposed purity that allows unhealthy priests to hide their sexual dysfunction.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=130473&page=1
It is easy to think that when we talk about the crisis of child rape and abuse that we are talking about the past – and the Catholic Church would have us believe that this most tragic era in church history is over. It is not. It lives on today. Paedophiles are still in the priesthood. Cover-ups of their crimes are happening now, and bishops in many cases are continuing to refuse to turn information over to the criminal justice system. Cases are stalled and cannot go forward because the church has such power to stop them. Children are still being harmed and victims cannot heal.
“When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world”
SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spotlight_2015/
The find explores the reality of ongoing sexual abuse by Catholic priest. The assumption reaffirms the prevailing notion that the church mandate for celibacy continues to attract paedophiles to the priesthood. The John Jay Report found sexual abuse by Catholic priests, “around 81% of these victims were male”.
In the early 2000s, several priest molestation scandals broke that have rippled worldwide. Many cases were not prosecutable, as the evidence uncovered was from so long ago that the Statute of Limitations had expired. As a result of some of the cases, there was a push to alter these statutes so that adults who were molested as children would have a chance to testify and seek justice years after the event. In just one Australian state, Victoria, it is estimated between 600 and 10,000 children were abused since the 1930s.[3] It is estimated that at least 4% of Roman Catholic priests serving in the United States during the first half of the 20th Century abused minors.
.............it's entirely unnatural to force a person to be "celibate?" Perhaps the priesthood attracts child molesters because of its unnatural structure that, by eliminating healthy sexuality, encourages perversion and also covers it up?
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_the_Roman_Catholic_Church
The Catholic church’s position on priest celibacy has always been cloaked in the assumption of moral purity and asceticism, yet priests were permitted to marry until the twelfth century. Lawrence Cunningham, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, said the mandatory celibacy rules were adopted for many reasons, both theological and practical. Among the latter, he said, was the need to avoid claims on church property by priests’ offspring.
A 2005 article in the conservative Irish weekly the Western People proposed that clerical celibacy contributed to the abuse problem by suggesting that the institution of celibacy has created a "morally superior" status that is easily misapplied by abusive priests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
Many who become priests are homosexuals with sexual developmental disorders; these men choose the priesthood to avoid exposure of their homosexuality. The priesthood has attracted a disproportionate number of men who desire a life free of sexual censorship, yet often they surreptitiously act out their sexual confusion on innocent children, many who revere priests and have, in past times, refused to expose local priest, afraid to speak out against the Catholic church; they are usually too ashamed to report sexual misconduct by priests because of personal guilt.
Jason Berry, author of Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children, says celibacy can be a cloak of supposed purity that allows unhealthy priests to hide their sexual dysfunction.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=130473&page=1
It is easy to think that when we talk about the crisis of child rape and abuse that we are talking about the past – and the Catholic Church would have us believe that this most tragic era in church history is over. It is not. It lives on today. Paedophiles are still in the priesthood. Cover-ups of their crimes are happening now, and bishops in many cases are continuing to refuse to turn information over to the criminal justice system. Cases are stalled and cannot go forward because the church has such power to stop them. Children are still being harmed and victims cannot heal.
