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To: Lazarus_Long who started this subject	3/17/2002 9:37:07 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) of 21057

Catholic priests, pedophilia, and homosexuality... For those interested is a better understanding of this crisis in the Catholic Church, the Boston Globe has an excellent in-depth article today. This report suggests that "pedophilia" may not be an accurate characterization of the problem, inasmuch as as many as 90 percent of priest abusers target teenage boys as their victims, and incidents involving prepubescent children are rare. That pattern of abuse by priests has been seized on by some who would link the assaults to the high number of gay priests in the church. Scholars say that somewhere between 1 and 10 percent of the general population is gay, but that in the priesthood it may be as high as 50 percent. Yet many scholars say the link between homosexuality and the abuse of teenage boys is unclear. Specialists also don't know what percentage of priests who molest boys are gay. And, they say, there are other equally important factors in the abuse of adolescent boys by priests, including the stunted psychosexual development of some priests, the access priests have to teenage boys, and the authority priests have over them. The full report is available at: boston.com

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