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Nonetheless, the church still has not designed an effective nationwide policy to remedy its troubles. While pedophilia is considered a grievous sin, it is also seen as disobedience to the celibacy rule. The American Catholic Church does not even have a grasp of the numerical dimensions of the situation. How many pedophilia cases is the church dealing with? "I don't know," says Bishop Kinney. "We don't have the statistics yet." Each of the 188 dioceses in the U.S., he explains, is its own de facto principality, reporting directly to Rome. Thus, Kinney says, the U.S. bishops' organization cannot...
...Pedophilia and other assorted sexually deviant behavior, because of new revelations of the transgressions of Roman Catholic priests, have been firmly lodged in recent headlines. But this is well-trod terrain. Sexual deviancy has been covered extensively and credibly in Victorian scatological literature as well as and perhaps most memorably by Nabokov...
...scandals -- ranging from clandestine liaisons with adult parishioners to clerical pedophilia -- have focused fresh attention on the life of the Catholic priest and turned him into a suspect figure in many eyes. Says Monsignor Edwin O'Brien, rector of the North American Pontifical College in Rome: "A priest would have to be out of his mind now to touch a kid, even if it's just to pat him on the head or tap him on the shoulder." The scandals are forcing the American clergy -- and, ever so reluctantly, the Vatican -- to examine the nature and tradition of the priesthood...
...trajectory to another as new targets appear on his screen. He believes in absolutes. He abhors moral relativism and what others call "values." "A person who believes in having sexual relationships with children has values," he snaps in a clipped Texas baritone. "He puts a high value on pedophilia...
...only professionals concerned about the problem. Judith Schechtman, a clinical social worker for the St. Louis police and the State of Missouri, says there is a dramatic increase in reports of serious, highly secretive satanic cults that practice bizarre rituals to cloak animal torture, drug abuse, pedophilia and child pornography. Such cases are unusual, she says, but extremely damaging to youths. "In the worst-case scenario, therapy can take years...