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An 18 page address of the problem that is emerging in the Catholic Church. This paper explores the various theories that are being promoted to explain this abuse. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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18 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPrlgSexAb.rtf
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Sexual abuse is one of the more disturbing problems in modern society. As recent
headlines testify, too much of that abuse originates in the Catholic Church itself. One case after another has emerged in recent years where priests have been accused of sexually
molesting children. The cause of this abuse is unclear. Although speculation abounds, many of those speculations are controversial and others are myopic. What is clear is that
this abuse has long lasting implications not just for the victim of the abuse, but for the abuser, the Church, and for society as a whole.
Most of the sexual abuse cases that have been uncovered within the Catholic Church have several facts in common. Most involve male priests and male children.
In most of the cases official testimonies from the children are not procured until years after the alleged abuse. Not surprisingly, when these cases do reach our court
system, they are surrounded by a certain degree of doubt as to exactly what happened. Most have at least some inconsistencies in the testimony that is presented and many
of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the court system itself. In the most questionable of the abuse
cases, the possibilities of tainted memories and circumstances are glaring yet in many our system trudges right along fueled on by the horrors of what such cases suggest in terms
of the plummeting societal mores that characterize our modern lives. Even in those cases where the evidence is the strongest, however, the outcome is not what we might always
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