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With numerous reports surfacing since early January of sexual abuse of children and adolescents by Catholic priests in Boston and other cities, Harvard Catholics have split on whether or not to discuss the issue in a public forum.
The best thing most people can say about pedophiles--whether they're found in the Roman Catholic Church or outside it--is that they're just plain sick. But sick implies the possibility of treatment, and treatment suggests the possibility of cure; and that raises one of the most vexing...
What still puzzles behavior experts is why pedophilia exists at all. Although it's true that many child molesters were molested as children, the numbers are pretty muddy. Therapists who work with abusers report that anywhere from a third to three-quarters of their patients claim to have been victims...
Well before the scandals over Catholic priests accused of pedophilia, Americans were beginning to cast a skeptical eye on mainstream religion. In a 1993 cover story, TIME noted that people were turning away from the traditional CHURCH in search of more personalized spiritual havens.
There was a time in America when a spiritual journey meant a long, stormy crossing of the soul, an exploration mapped by Scripture and led by clergy through the family church. Catholic you were born and Catholic you died, or Methodist, or Jew... Today, a quiet revolution is taking place...