AUSTRALIA
Christian Post
September 13, 2017
By Stoyan Zaimov
A major report analyzing the findings of 26 royal commissions and other inquiries on child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has argued that mandatory celibacy for priests is one of the major factors contributing to the epidemic.
The 384-page report, titled “Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An Interpretive Review of the Literature and Public Inquiry Reports,” published on Wednesday by the Center for Global Research at RMIT University, warned that children are “at risk” at more than 9,000 Catholic-run orphanages around the developing world.
It argued that due to the patriarchal nature of Catholic institutions, abuse often goes unchallenged, and said that the risk of offending was much higher in institutions where priests had minimal contact with women.
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