In Sexual Abuse Hearing UN Calls Holy See on Girls’ Reproductive Rights
…priests in good standing; of mothers of priests’ children being forced to sign confidentiality agreements to get any support at all. These issues—forcing children to bear children, forced child relinquishment, abandonment of children by Catholic priests—were not the main subjects of this hearing, but that they were mentioned is noteworthy because the church’s history of child abuse has taken many forms. And that history is tied intimately to the…
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