AUSTRALIA
Newsweek
December 15, 2017
By Grace Guarnieri
A five-year investigation of thousands of child abuse victims in Australia has led to one stunning recommendation: that the Catholic Church should allow priests to have sex in order to curb child abuse.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse reviewed more than 8,000 cases since 2013, and found that schoolteachers and religious ministers accounted for the most child abuse complaints. Catholic priests accounted for 61.4 percent of the alleged religious perpetrators.
With that stat in mind, the final report released Friday offered hundreds of recommendations, including an end to the Catholic Church’s centuries-old policy for compulsory celibacy, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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