Word: clergymen
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These are among the most notorious examples of what some experts say is a more pervasive problem. Roman Catholic clergymen today are violating their church's strictures on sex. Based on interviews conducted over the past 25 years with 1,000 priests and 500 other men and women, many of them the sexual partners of clerics, Baltimore psychotherapist A.W. Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk, estimates that half the 53,000 Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. are breaking their vow of celibacy. According to Sipe, whose findings are being published this month in A Secret World: Sexuality...
Therapists employ a variety of techniques, ranging from individual and group psychotherapy to physical exercise, to drug treatments intended to smother the sex drive of pedophiliac priests through "chemical castration." In addition, clergymen receive spiritual counseling to help them examine their commitment to their faith. Statistics are sketchy, but 98% of the priests who go through Paraclete's program return to active ministry. And of 200 priests treated at St. Luke, says the Rev. Curtis Bryant, a psychologist who directs inpatient services, "none has relapsed as far as we know." Priests who resume their religious duties are usually placed...
...demands for a greater infusion of resources into the black community. While they condemned violence, the church leaders said, "There is also a danger that in our efforts to respond to each other's rhetoric, we will ignore the violence that already exists in our community." If the clergymen's intervention can produce a compromise, all of Milwaukee can say amen...
Many Catholic clergymen are especially hostile because they find it unfair for the church to cut a special deal for these 43 while it bars the return of thousands of men who left the priesthood to marry. San Antonio's Father Christopher G. Phillips, the first married priest to head a U.S. parish, rejects the double-standard complaint, noting that the ex-priests have broken vows taken voluntarily to observe lifelong celibacy. Phillips reports that reactions he has received from Catholic colleagues run the gamut from "great joy to utter disdain...
...become endemic in recent years, as crack has invaded ghettos across the nation, causing so much death and destruction that many blacks are convinced its spread cannot be accidental. More or less preposterous genocide theories are being spun by black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan, so-called intellectuals and prominent clergymen. Even the National Urban League published this passage in its 1989 report on the state of black America: "There is at least one concept that must be recognized if one is to see the pervasive and insidious nature of the drug problem for the African- American community. Though difficult...