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Beginning on January 6, 2002 with a news report of a former priest who was accused of molesting boys,[1] the Roman Catholic Church entered a major scandal that continues to harm its reputation to this day. Prior to the media scandal however, some of the priests who would be implicated, such as Paul Shanley, had been openly promoting pedophilia and other forms of sex since the 1960s and 1970s.[2] Conservative and traditionalist Catholics had long claimed in fact that a significant minority of the clergy had been practicing such behavior for decades, alleging that a "homosexual collective" within the priesthood viewed it as a "religious rite" and "rite of passage" for altar boys and young priests.[3]

The scandal involved a series of allegations of sexual abuse reported by the media.[4] The initial cases involved abuse of pre-pubescent children.[5] The homosexual nature of the crisis is shown in the"overwhelming majority"[6] of the balance of the abuse reported involving adolescent males or youths.

Some media sources have noted that when placed in perspective, the documented cases in the Catholic Church are much lower than incidents of pedophilia in the public school system. For the latter, the problem is over three times higher (up to 5% of American teachers, versus estimates of 0.2%[7] and 1.5% of Catholic priests), and only an estimated 1% of pedophile teachers have faced the loss of their license since most are merely moved to other districts. The police are rarely notified.[8]

The incidents in the pedophile priest scandal involved Catholic priests (who are all male) and members of the various religious orders (both male and female). Many cases involved seminaries, schools and orphanages, where young people were in the care of clergy. Many of these allegations led to successful prosecutions. For the purposes of this article, these cases are referred to as the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases.

In some cases the crimes were covered up by Church authorities and the perpetrators moved to another location, sometimes repeatedly. In the worst cases these involved pedophile priests with continued access to children as a result (see, for example, the Ferns report). Criticism of the Church and its leadership followed, especially as some high-ranking Church clergy failed to disclose information about certain sex abuse cases involving law breaking to government authorities.

While the reported sexual abuse by the clergy related to incidents predominantly from the 1960s to 1980s.[9] some cases occurred in the 1990s and sexual abuse has also happened in the distant past. It was the topic of Pope Benedict XIV's apostolic constitution Sacramentum Poenitentiae in 1741.


http://dir.salon.com/story/news/col/scheer/2002/05/01/church/index.html
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020506&s=trb050602
http://www.answering-christianity.com/pedophile_and_homosexual_priests.htm
http://ffrf.org/timely/pedo1992.php
http://www.counterpunch.org/smith03092004.html


Ja nämä ei oo tapahtu 600 tai 700 luvulla vaan 1900 luvun loppupuolella. Ja sun näkemyksen mukaan "sivistyneissä" valtioissa...
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