WASHINGTON (DC)
The Washington Times
December 15, 2017
By Cheryl K. Chumley
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The Catholic Church, as everybody knows, has a problem with its priests preying on little children, and with its higher-ups covering up the sexual abuse scandals.
So a new report in Australia is recommending the church lift its celibacy requirements for the diocesan clergy — the idea being that if these members of the church could have sex with, say, wives, they wouldn’t be chasing after the choir boys.
This makes practical sense.
After all, hasn’t the abuse of children within the church gone on long enough?
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.