Does the Catholic church have a long history of child abuse, or is it something that started in our time?
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There isn't much evidence either way. However, the claims that it's a result of such aspects of the modern world as "the sexual revolution and the rise of moral relativism" seem to have a logical problem:
If that were the case, why would the hierarchy of the church react so consistently to the known cases, by keeping them quiet and transferring the offending priests to different jobs? It seems very surprising that recent social changes should have such uniform effects across bishops of different ages and from different cultures.
Indeed, it seems more plausible, on the face of it, that there has been a tradition of responding this way for generations. Under this hypothesis, the reason it's now coming to light is that in the modern day, the victims are less willing to keep quiet.
It certainly does seem to be the case that once the moral authority of the church had been damaged, more and more victims came forward.
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The Catholic Church has been the so-called guardian of orphans and yet, there are horror stories about abuse, tortures, death, and even mass graves on unwed women's homes and orphanages.
The idea of children's rights is quite modern. If the last 100 years are full of known incidents of child abuse and scandal. I can only assume that older times (BC - AC) were even worse.
See this scholarly journal reference:
- Rashid F, and I Barron. 2018. "The Roman Catholic Church: A Centuries Old History of Awareness of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse (from the First to the 19th Century)". Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 27 (7): 778-792.
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