Of course - it is just so obvious

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How did we not know this already?

 

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/05/18/study_blames_culture_of_era_for_churchs_abuse_crisis/

 

Study blames culture of era for churchs abuse crisis

Priests poorly trained, report to bishops says

 

WASHINGTON The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was caused by the influence of sweeping social changes and increasing deviant behavior of the 1960s and 1970s on priests who were inadequately trained, emotionally unprepared, and isolated, according to a new report commissioned by the nations Roman Catholic bishops.

 

Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, who spent five years conducting the most expensive and extensive study of sexual abuse in the Catholic church to date, concluded that homosexual priests were no more likely to abuse than heterosexual priests.

 

They also found that celibacy could not be blamed for the abuse epidemic. Nor could seminaries have done a better job screening for likely offenders because abusive priests had no common profile.

 

Wrote the authors: The most significant conclusion drawn from this data is that no single psychological, developmental, or behavioral characteristic differentiated priests who abused minors from those who did not.

 

The report also states that poor training of priests, combined with social isolation, job stress, and few support mechanisms likely contributed to the abuse problem. The decline of sexual abuse in the mid-1980s coincided with better training for seminarians in human sexuality and relationships.

 

The report, titled The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010, appears to deflect most blame for the crisis away from the church. However, the study acknowledges that there was little evidence before 2002 that diocesan leaders met directly with victims. Instead, church leaders focused on the abusive priests rather than on their victims.

 

Abusive priests have often been branded pedophiles, but the report in a declaration that appears destined to stir controversy insists that fewer than 5 percent actually met that definition. In the process, however, the studys authors seem to redefine what constitutes pedophilia.

 

Major associations of psychiatrists typically define pedophilia as interest in children 13 and younger, calling them prepubescent.

 

But to reach their conclusion about the low incidence of the disorder among priests, the report authors seem to suggest that the prepubescent period ends at age 10.

 

 

What a crock of sh!t.

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Childhood memories still haunt you?

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How do they esplane the rapes of these little boys 50 60 years ago?

 

 

 

Religion is the biggest crock of shit evah invented by man.

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Childhood memories still haunt you?

Actually, I have a deep rooted inferiority complex because I was not molested as a child.

 

I am not Catholic

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Religion is the biggest crock of shit evah invented by man.