Directory of Clergy Abuse Resources

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Sites related to clergy abuse within the Catholic Church. Nearly any intimate romantic or sexual relationship between clergy or another church worker and a parishioner is abusive, because the two parties do not have the same power in the relationship.

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Resources in This Category

• Abuse in the Catholic Church

  http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/
  Hub for articles and documents about the sexual abuse of children by priests and its effect on the Catholic Church. From the Boston Globe.

• BishopAccountability.org

  http://www.bishopaccountability.org/
  Documents the abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic church with archives of past court cases and survivor accounts.

• Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 2002

  http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/2002/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_20020321_priests-holy-thursday_en.html
  From Pope John Paul II, includes apology for the abuse crimes within the clergy.

• Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests

  http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/sexabuse.htm
  Links to recent news stories involving abuse by the clergy.

• Speak Truth to Power

  http://www.sttop.org/
  Group protesting Catholic church's mismanagement of sexual abuse crisis. Offers activism resources.

• The Catholic Church and Sex Abuse

  http://www.npr.org/news/specials/priests/
  News archive covering the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse cases involving priests and other church officials. At National Public Radio.

• The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse by Priests

  http://www.americancatholic.org/News/ClergySexAbuse/
  A look at the crisis over sex abuse by Catholic clergy, with backgrounders, breaking news, opinion.

• The Second Temptation of Christ

  http://bill.laudeman.com/Rome/index.html
  Speculates on the root cause of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church.

• Unholy Acts

  http://www.somis.org/unholy__acts.htm
  1993 essay published in the New Yorker about how an incident of sexual misconduct by a priest affected a small Catholic church in Massachusetts. By Paul Wilkes.

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