Australia child sex abuse study notes Catholic Church mandatory celibacy as cause Australia has published a long-running report on child abuse in the Catholic Church. Celibate priest perpetrators offended because they were "terrorized with their own sexual desires," a report co-author told DW. Among the 189 recommendations put forward by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse are two for the Catholic Church to lift its demand for mandatory celibacy and enforce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, even if it is heard during confession. A five-year study from Melbourne's RMIT University on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church found that mandatory celibacy is the major precipitating ... Continue reading... http://www.dw.com/en/australia-chil...church-mandatory-celibacy-as-cause/a-41817456
