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Richard Sipe:
If you really want to understand the crisis, you have to start with the celibacy requirement - That was my first major finding. Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects pedophiles
If you really want to understand the crisis, you have to start with the celibacy requirement - That was my first major finding. Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects pedophiles
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I think if you really want to understand the crisis
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you need to start with the celibacy requirement
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That was my first major finding
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Only 50 of the clergy are celibate
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Now most of them are having sex with other adults
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But the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy
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that tolerates and even protects pedophiles
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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
