More than a month ago, Sister Sheila McNiff of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus published a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed piece claiming that the clerical sexual abuse problems in Los Angeles have come to an end.
I do not blame her for attempting to close the door on an ugly decades-old chapter of the [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 30, 2008
The Crafty Perpetrators Remain
January 15, 2008
Your Tax Dollars May Be Supporting Abusers: The Problem of Government Support of Catholic Charities
The sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults by Roman Catholic Clerics is the most damaging financial event in over two centuries. Not since Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) turned over the Papal States (central Italy) and disbanded the Papal army in the 1860s has the Church lost so many assets. [...]
January 9, 2008
Ten Common Myths about the Sexual Abuse of Minors and Vulnerable Adults by Clerics
Myth #1 – Catholic priests are no more likely to be pedophiles than other groups of men.
Roman Catholic bishops, priests, and deacons are vowed to a life of perfect and perpetual continence. (canon 276 CIC83) This is the lens with which we should view the following facts from the John Jay Center for Criminal [...]
