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The Catholic Church has required celibacy from its priests for centuries, yet those vows were broken so frequently that the Vatican established a secret set of guidelines for dealing with clerics who fathered children.
This latest revelation, first reported by The New York Times, comes amid a new wave of developments tied to the burgeoning sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the church for close to two decades.
On Monday, the Diocese of Oakland, California, released a list of 45 clergymen and religious brothers it said have had “credible accusations’’ of child sexual abuse made against them, going as far back as the 1960s. Several other dioceses have taken similar steps in recent months.
Pope Francis defrocked former Washington archbishop Theodore McCarrick after he was found guilty of a series of sexual crimes, making him the first American cardinal to be expelled from the priesthood.
Two weeks ago, Francis acknowledged the long-known but rarely addressed problem of nuns being sexually assaulted by priests.
“It’s the next scandal,’’ Doyle said. “There are kids everywhere.’’
“The first problem with children of priests is they're not recognized," Doyle said. “When you're hidden … you are characterized by secrecy.’’.....read on.....
(Children of most religious leaders worldwide, whether married or not, is probably acceptable, except for the Catholic priests and hierarchy who are to abstain from sex with either gender, which we know they do not....the poor kids grow up feeling like they have no identity and are hushed with their secret to no end)
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/...children/2918042002/
There's more: Priest's son demands Vatican attention for clergy's children....
The head organizer of the Vatican's sex abuse summit has met with an Irish activist Vincent Doyle who is seeking to draw attention to another issue the Vatican has long sought to keep quiet: the plight of children of priests.
Doyle also notes that these children are born under a wide range of circumstances, with some the result of sexual abuse by priests against girls and women.
Doyle has been campaigning to help eliminate the stigma children of priests often face, and educate the church about the problems they can suffer as a result of the secrecy imposed on them and the absentee fathers they may never know. Those problems, which can include depression, anxiety and other mental health issues, were the subject of a 2017 series in The Boston Globe....read in its entirety....
www.foxnews.com/world/priests-son-demand...for-clergys-children
This latest revelation, first reported by The New York Times, comes amid a new wave of developments tied to the burgeoning sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the church for close to two decades.
On Monday, the Diocese of Oakland, California, released a list of 45 clergymen and religious brothers it said have had “credible accusations’’ of child sexual abuse made against them, going as far back as the 1960s. Several other dioceses have taken similar steps in recent months.
Pope Francis defrocked former Washington archbishop Theodore McCarrick after he was found guilty of a series of sexual crimes, making him the first American cardinal to be expelled from the priesthood.
Two weeks ago, Francis acknowledged the long-known but rarely addressed problem of nuns being sexually assaulted by priests.
“It’s the next scandal,’’ Doyle said. “There are kids everywhere.’’
“The first problem with children of priests is they're not recognized," Doyle said. “When you're hidden … you are characterized by secrecy.’’.....read on.....
(Children of most religious leaders worldwide, whether married or not, is probably acceptable, except for the Catholic priests and hierarchy who are to abstain from sex with either gender, which we know they do not....the poor kids grow up feeling like they have no identity and are hushed with their secret to no end)
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/...children/2918042002/
There's more: Priest's son demands Vatican attention for clergy's children....
The head organizer of the Vatican's sex abuse summit has met with an Irish activist Vincent Doyle who is seeking to draw attention to another issue the Vatican has long sought to keep quiet: the plight of children of priests.
Doyle also notes that these children are born under a wide range of circumstances, with some the result of sexual abuse by priests against girls and women.
Doyle has been campaigning to help eliminate the stigma children of priests often face, and educate the church about the problems they can suffer as a result of the secrecy imposed on them and the absentee fathers they may never know. Those problems, which can include depression, anxiety and other mental health issues, were the subject of a 2017 series in The Boston Globe....read in its entirety....
www.foxnews.com/world/priests-son-demand...for-clergys-children