New Study Suggested for Understanding the Sexual Abuse Crisis

CHICAGO - A board set up by U.S. Catholic bishops to examine the church's sexual abuse crisis recommended a sweeping study yesterday to provide a better understanding of why priests abused minors.

Dr. Paul McHugh, a professor and former director of the Johns Hopkins psychiatry department, told the gathering of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during a closed-door session that the research would take about three years and would include extensive interviews with victims and perpetrators.

I still have to defer to Bishop Bruskewitz's comments a few years back when he suggested that there is a definite link between the crisis and rampant dissent with the Church...Is someone looking for a 3-year employment contract to come up with other reasons for widespread sexual criminal and deviant behavior?