Blaming celibacy is an enormous simplification that leaves out many important causes.

“We have concluded that there were catastrophic failures of leadership of Catholic Church authorities over many decades,” the report said.

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Three reasons why sexual harassment violates Catholic social teaching

If the tragic revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis are any guide, the process of reckoning with problems that have been avoided for decades will itself take decades.