Monday, February 4, 2013  Peter Isely on Systemic Roots of
Catholic Clerical Sexual Abuse of Minors  Peter Isely of SNAP
Wisconsin talks recently with Allison Hope Weiner on her "Media
Mayhem" program at LIPtv. Isely explains to her that the roots
of the abuse problem in the Catholic church lie within the
Catholic system itself. They have to do with how clerical power
is understood and allocated:  The question is, you know, with
this issue, is there something about the system of the church?
And I believe there is, that actually in a way manufactures or
creates a certain kind of sex offender. And that's a much more
disturbing question that needs to be asked, as opposed to,
"Well,  this problem is everywhere in society, so we got it,
too." But I think the evidence is pretty overwhelming that
there's something about the church, the way it relates to
sexuality, the way that it understands power, the way that it
distributes power, the way that it looks at the priesthood and
so forth, that creates a criminal class