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Title: 1960s Moral Decline Blamed For Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandals
Source: wpherald.com
URL Source: http://wpherald.com/articles/4350/1 ... ashington-cites-Woodstock.html
Published: Apr 17, 2007
Author: By Julia Duin
Post Date: 2007-04-17 13:52:11 by Mind_Virus
Keywords: None
Views: 212
Comments: 3

1960s Moral Decline Blamed For Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandals

Retired archbishop of Washington cites Woodstock

By Julia Duin The Washington Times

WASHINGTON -- Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the recently retired archbishop of Washington, blamed the "loose morals" of the 1960s for the massive sex-abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church.

Speaking at a conference in Auckland, New Zealand, last weekend, he said the priestly sex abusers had been caught up in the sexually lax climate of the 1960s -- an era that he said was "when anything goes."

"It was Woodstock," he said, according to the New Zealand Herald. "People were smoking marijuana, and the sexual mores went down as all mores went down."

It was also true that the problem had always existed "and that we have become aware of it just recently," the newspaper reported him as saying. "Now, having become aware of it, we have tried to do the very best we can to ensure that it doesn't happen."

Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, could not comment on the cardinal's quotes as she had not seen an original text. The cardinal's remarks were part of a longer interview about the priest sex-abuse crisis.

The Washington Archdiocese has spent $6 million on sex-abuse cases. About 130 people, mostly men, have made charges judged as credible against 28 priests in the archdiocese for incidents, most of which were before 1980.

In December, the Washington Archdiocese settled a lawsuit brought against it by 16 men for $1.3 million. Represented by the law firm Greenberg Traurig, the men said they had been abused by priests between 1962 and 1982.

Mark Serrano, a Leesburg, Va.-based advocate for people sexually abused by priests and a member of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), called the cardinal's comments "egregious and typical."

"This was about felony sex abusers in the priesthood and the bishops who protected them," he said. "That sex crimes against children can relate to a cultural period in American history is absurd.

"That's been the line out of the Vatican all along -- that the sex-abuse crisis is about the loose morals of the Americans."

Under the cardinal's leadership, the archdiocese revised its sex-abuse policy in 2003 and was commended the next year for its "exemplary" abuse-protection program by the Boston-based Gavin Group, which judged U.S. dioceses on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

When the birth-control pill became widely available, things perked up.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-04-17   13:57:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

The Catholic Church has long been the most evil institution on earth, and they were that way long before the 1960s.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-17   14:00:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

Interesting.

Though, these things can be handled quite well using the internal workings of the Catholic Church if anyone bothers to figure out how it works. We've had three priests removed so far. If we run into more who act 'out of line' then we'll have more sent off to Partenia to ponder the errors of their ways.

The trick to dealing with the Catholic Church is understanding how they operate and then holding them to their own standards. VERY few people do that or bother to learn about its inner workings. They'd rather just whine about it and so nothing ever gets corrected.

Press 1 to proceed in English. Press 2 for Deportation.

mirage  posted on  2007-04-17   14:43:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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