Word: denialism
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Dioceses lapsed into a pattern of denial and deception. They treated sexual pathology as a moral failure and crime as a religious matter. The Roman Catholic Church is a stern hierarchy that has always kept its deliberations secret, policed itself and issued orders from the top. An obedient priest moves up in power by keeping his head down, winning rewards for bureaucratic skills and strict orthodoxy. When Cardinals are created, they take a vow before the Pope to "keep in confidence anything that, if revealed, would cause a scandal or harm to the church." When it came to sex abuse...
Despite the attempts by the church to put its house in order, the underlying attitude of denial still makes it difficult for victims of sexual abuse to come forward. "Twenty years ago that bastard raped me," grieves a tormented O'Gorman, "and I am still now forced to be in a position where I have to fight to get somebody to acknowledge what they did or didn't do. It's not good enough." Given the opportunites that church has had in the past to deal with priestly crimes, there is the suspicion that it is only the lawyers' intervention...
...attorney Anderson says he is taking the hardball approach in these suits because church authorities "change what they say but they don't change their actions. So it remains the same: denial, denial, denial and keep it secret. Only do something when it leaks out, and then do damage control." If O'Connell's phone messages to Doe are any indication, control is something the church may well already have lost...
...American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is building to hold Hollywood accountable. Says Glantz: "The entertainment industry is in denial...
...explaining this denial, the libraries cited the security of library workers and budget constraints...