Freedom of the Press and Catholic Social Thought: Reflections on the Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Decosse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Catholic Church

scholarly journals Stakeholder-Formed Organizations and Crisis Communication: Analyzing Discourse of Renewal with a Non-Offending Organization

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-274
Author(s):  
Jordan Morehouse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
The Catholic Church

Scholars have examined the ways organizations practice post-crisis communication strategies, including deny, diminish, and rebuild. The current study explores the extent to which a stakeholder-formed organization utilizes post-crisis discourse of renewal to rebuild, recover, and renew the Catholic Church after allegations of sexual abuse of minors publicly surfaced in the United States. Open-ended semi-structured interviews with founders and executive committee members of Leadership Roundtable revealed stakeholders practiced discourse of renewal to help the Catholic Church, an offending organization, recover from a crisis. This study also assessed the extent to which God and religion motivated stakeholders’ responses. Results suggest religion is a critical motivating factor in stakeholders’ responses to a crisis.

Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests, Deacons, and Male Members of Religious Orders in the Authority of the German Bishops’ Conference 1946–2014

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 107906321989337
Author(s):  
Harald Dressing ◽  
Dieter Dölling ◽  
Dieter Hermann ◽  
Andreas Kruse ◽  
Eric Schmitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
European Country ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
The Catholic Church

This study explores the extent of sexual abuse of minors by members of the Catholic Church in Germany. It is the first comprehensive study to examine this extent in a European country. The goals of this study are as follows: (a) to analyze whether the extent and characteristics of sexual abuse in a European country are comparable to those in the United States and Australia and (b) how discrepancies can be explained. The personnel files of 38,156 Catholic Priests, deacons, and male members of religious orders in the authority of the German Bishops’ Conference were analyzed. The study period lasted from 1946 to 2014. All 27 German dioceses took part in this study. A total of 4.4% of all clerics ( N = 1,670) from 1946 to 2014 were alleged to have committed sexual abuse, and 3,677 children or adolescents were identified as victims. These results are similar to those from comparable studies in the United States. Sexual abuse of minors within the authority of the Catholic Church seems to be a worldwide phenomenon.

scholarly journals The labor issue in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. The contribution of the Catholic Church to its solution

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 131-148
Author(s):  
Marcin Graban
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Catholic Social Thought ◽  
Rerum Novarum ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Catholic Church

The stance of the Catholic Church in the United States of America on the problems related to workers’ wages is an interesting issue from the point of view of the ethics of economic life and the development of Catholic social thought. The interpretation of the main Catholic social ideas contained in Leo XIII’s encyclical letter Rerum novarum was made by Father John Augustine Ryan (1896–1945), who soon became a major proponent of the idea that a good economic policy can only result from good ethics. In the history of the United States of America, the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was a time of the development of labor unions, associations and workers’ organizations as well as the consolidation of efforts to achieve equitable remuneration (a living wage) and regulate working conditions. It was also a time of struggling with the ideas of socialism and nationalism. The Catholic Church played a significant role in the discourse on these issues, including the influence of John A. Ryan. His efforts led to one of the most important interpretations of economic life: The Program of Social Reconstruction (1919), and some of its postulates can be found in the New Deal legislation.

Kenrick and the Paulists: A Conflict of Structures and Personalities

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
John P. Marschall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Religious Congregation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Catholic Church

In spite of the nativism that agitated the United States during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the Catholic Church experienced a noticeable drift of native American converts from other denominations. Between 1841 and 1857 the increased number of converts included a significant sprinkling of Protestant ministers. The history of this movement, which had its paradigm in the Oxford Movement, will be treated more in detail elsewhere. The purpose of this essay is simply to recount the attempt by several converts to establish a religious congregation of men dedicated to the Catholic apostolate among native Americans.

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