Abstract
The newspapers are full of it. Television commentators continue to report on it. The Internet is a growing repository of heinous stories related to it. So far, it has cost over three billion dollars to settle the lawsuits. But the cost in publicity and money is only a collateral consequence of Catholic clerical sexual abuse. The crisis is costing the Church its moral credibility and its long-standing, balanced relationship with civil authority in the United States.
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Formicola, J.R. (2014). Introduction. In: Clerical Sexual Abuse. Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381644_1
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