Book says abuse by priests nothing new
Fr. Thomas Doyle, OP, longtime critic of hierarchical inadequacy in the matter of priestly sexual abuse, has a book out about abuse down the centuries. His judgment about the last 20 years?
“The church hierarchy has shown itself incapable, rather than unwilling, to respond to the clerical sexual abuse crisis since the 1980s,” he said. “There is good will on the part of many within the system, but they've been so caught up or formed by a system that tells them that what is most important is the image of the institutional church, because that really is the church. And the destructiveness of that system to the church and its supporters certainly has been evident over the past 20 years.
David Yonke, of the Toledo Blade, has the interview.
posted by Jim Bowman @ 7/02/2006 01:14:00 PM
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