Sex Abuse Scandals in the Catholic Church: Wolves Among Shepherds and Sheep

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Cynthia J

 

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March 23, 2011

 

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The occupation of shepherd to human souls has been passed down for centuries from Christ to his apostles, the original bishoprics, and unto their successors-modern day priests. The Roman Catholic Church has held tightly to this tradition; however over the past fifty years when young children knelt as sheep before their shepherd they met vile, sinful hands, not tender and compassionate ones...
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"Between 1950 and 2002 more than 10,667 boys and girls in the United States were victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic clergy. More that 4,392 Catholic priests and deacons were their abusers" ("Report on the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" 1). The church's credibility and the trustworthiness of the Catholic clergy have been devastatingly effected...
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