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Sites related to clergy abuse within the Catholic Church. Nearly any intimate romantic or sexual relationship between clergy or another church worker and a parishioner is abusive, because the two parties do not have the same power in the relationship.

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• Clergy Abuse Tracker - A digest of links to media coverage of clergy abuse.
  
• Speak Truth to Power - Group protesting Catholic church's mismanagement of sexual abuse crisis. Offers activism resources.
  
• Online NewsHour: Church in Turmoil - PBS transcript of a report on the abuse scandals and reported cover-ups within the Catholic Church.
  
• The Catholic Church and Sex Abuse - News archive covering the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse cases involving priests and other church officials. At National Public Radio.
  
• Keep Your Eyes on Jesus - A layman's guide to surviving the sex scandals in the Catholic Church.
  
• The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse by Priests - A look at the crisis over sex abuse by Catholic clergy, with backgrounders, breaking news, opinion.
  
• Abuse in the Catholic Church - Hub for articles and documents about the sexual abuse of children by priests and its effect on the Catholic Church. From the Boston Globe.
  
• Unholy Acts - 1993 essay published in the New Yorker about how an incident of sexual misconduct by a priest affected a small Catholic church in Massachusetts. By Paul Wilkes.
  
• The Second Temptation of Christ - Speculates on the root cause of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church.
  
• Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 2002 - From Pope John Paul II, includes apology for the abuse crimes within the clergy.
  
• BishopAccountability.org - Documents the abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic church with archives of past court cases and survivor accounts.
  
• Restoring Trust - Proposals, policy statements, opinion pieces, and other documents related to sexual abuse by clergy, from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
  
• Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests - Links to recent news stories involving abuse by the clergy.
  
  

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