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The National Catholic Reporter, an independent weekly, devoted fully two-thirds (66.7%) of its Vatican coverage to the scandal. Two Catholic news services, on the other hand, devoted considerably less of their Vatican coverage to the story. Catholic News Service gave it 44.8%, and the Catholic News Agency gave it 33.3%.
After Indiana pastor John Lowe II revealed he committed adultery nearly 20 years ago, the woman took the pulpit and accused him of taking her virginity at 16.
There were numerous prosecutions for adultery, fornication, and other sexual offenses, [33] but fornication was the most frequently prosecuted. [34] Fornication was seen as a serious sin and a canonical crime [35] and those convicted were required to "pay fines and court costs", [36] and they were often subject to public humiliation.
That adultery is a valid reason for divorce is the standard Protestant position. This interpretation was first advanced by Desiderius Erasmus, [6] and received the backing of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and most other major Protestant thinkers. For many centuries there was debate over this issue in the Roman Catholic Church.
"He concealed from the church that he had knowingly engaged in adultery in the church building with female members of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church while knowingly having AIDS," Williams told ...
In a statement read by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Holy See stated, "We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5% and 5% of the Catholic clergy has been involved in sexual abuse cases", adding that this figure was comparable to that of other groups and denominations. [6]
The decrease in allegations has continued until today. [4] There does not appear to be a single primary cause of the abuse patterns within the Catholic clergy; however, the John Jay report suggests that many of the abusing priests were inclined to abuse victims because they themselves have experienced childhood sexual abuse first hand. [4]
Most states that still have adultery laws classify them as misdemeanors, but Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Michigan treat adultery as felony […] The post After 117 years, adultery on the brink of ...