Unchaste Celibates: Clergy Sexual Misconduct against Adults—Expressions, Definitions, and Harms

Religions

Stephen Edward de Weger¹ 

[1] Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4000, Australia;

关键词: clergy;    misconduct;    sexual;    adult;    chastity;    celibacy;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rel13050393

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

There is an ignored, misunderstood, and complex reality within the broader clergy sexual abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Church (RCC)—that of clergy sexual misconduct against adults (CSMAA). Estimates and calculations of numbers of victims/survivors over the last half-century reach into the early millions. Furthermore, evidence reveals that CSMAA does produce many serious personal, relational, and practical harms. This article presents and discusses the many expressions of such harms. However, even with the evidence of such harms CSMAA events are, for the most part, still generally perceived as consensual affairs. Such a perception is challenged when CSMAA is contextualised within a professional misconduct framework, and even more so, when survivors thereof participate in the research. Furthermore, CSMAA is clearly not just one type of event. Accordingly, this article also presents a continuum of expressions of CSMAA to assist with perceptual accuracy of this issue along with an unambiguous definition of CSMAA.

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