The Pattern of Priestly Sex Abuse - NYTimes Blog

It's not an original idea and our TFP friend Catholic Knight had already mentioned it, but this is good to see this article and the study indicate, quite clearly, that Holy Father has been taking decisive measures against this.

Reproduced below is a chart from the John Jay Report on sexual abuse in the Catholic priesthood, commissioned by the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, showing the number of credible accusations of abuse across the last half-century. It’s part of the basis for my column’s claim that something in the moral/cultural/theological climate of the 1960s and 1970s encouraged a spike in sexual abuse, and also for my assertion that we’ve since seen the church come to grips with the problem, at least in the United States.

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