See this online text:
- “Popes Benedict XVI and Francis on the Sexual Abuse of Minors: Ecclesiological Perspectives”, by Mariusz Biliniewicz, Ph.D., Australasian Catholic Record, Vol. 97, No. 3 (2020), pp. 297-311. Available in pdf format at ResearchOnline@ND, which states: “Copyright © 2020 Australasian Catholic Record. All rights reserved. For personal use only. No other uses without permission”
See also these related texts:
- “The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse”, by Pope Benedict XVI, translated by Anian Christoph Wimmer. Published on 11 April 2019 at Catholic News Agency and Catholic Herald.
- Instruction “Religiosorum Institutio” on the Careful Selection and Training of Candidates for the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders, by the Sacred Congregation for Religious, February 2, 1961. May be read online on this page at Adoremus, on this page at the EWTN Library, and on this page at Our Lady’s Warriors; and available in .doc format on this page at Documenta Catholica Omnia. An abridged version, in Linacre Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 198-207 (August 2002), is available in pdf format at the Raynor Memorial Libraries.
- Justice in the Church: A Manual of Self Defense (2015). Available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (being the 07 November 2016 snapshot of the relevant page of Justice for Priests and Deacons) and at FlipHtml5. [This is a compendium of materials intended to teach clergy how to defend themselves against false accusations of sexual abuse.]
- Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland, by Pope Benedict XVI, 19 March 2010. Available in pdf format at Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference; and may be read online at the Holy See.
- “The Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church: What Psychologists and Counselors Should Know”, by Thomas G. Plante and Courtney Daniels, Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 52, No. 5, May 2004 (2004), pp. 381-393. Available in PDF format at Psychology Today.
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“Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land. Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood…
“But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that contradict the priest. And thou shalt fall to-day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee… My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children…
“And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices. And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed fornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in not observing his law. My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.” (Osee iv. 1-12)
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