National Conference of Catholic Bishops: It Was All That Permissiveness, That's All

A study commissioned by the Catholic church which is being released to today, entitled “The Causes and Contexts of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.” concludes it was all that 60s and 70s permissiveness that caused the clergy sex abuse scandals.  At the link you can read the Washington Post's take on the report.  According to Michael Boorstein, a reporter at the Post, the commissioned research concludes that the scandals were "a temporary problem caused by poorly trained seminarians, bishops who focused too little on victims and a permissive culture in the 1960s and 1970s that saw the rise of divorce, marijuana experimentation and robbery."   This is, of course garbage.  The report for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) is historically wrong but precisely the sort of thing those of us who pioneered the exposure of this scandal of come to expect.  It's just another outrage.

At the link, the reponse of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP.)