115: The Truth About the Priest Abuse Data—Father Paul Sullins, PhD

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This is the first in a series on the roots of the priestly abuse scandal. I know, a sad and depressing topic. But we have to “go there” if we want to “get there.”

Father Paul Sullins, PhD, author and professor emeritus of sociology at the Catholic University of America, has done us all a huge favor. He has collated and made sense of the data drawn from the John Jay Report, the data from the USCCB, the 2002 Los Angeles Times poll about homosexual priests, the data of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Reports, and intel from CARA (Center for Applied Research In the Apostolate).

It’s all in one place, a study done in collaboration with The Ruth Institute. Get the link below. His findings are stunning and sobering.

In this episode you will learn

Approximately how many boys would NOT have had their lives badly damaged by homosexual priests had the ratio of homosexuals in the priesthood had not skyrocketed from 1950-1980s.
Why we need to boldly tell the truth about the real causes of the crisis
The approximate proportion of priests today between 65 and 85 who are homosexual
Why the crisis is not about clericalism
Solid facts to back up bad logic and anti-Catholic arguments about celibacy, and the truth of what has happened in the last 50 years regarding predator behavior among some priests

Resources mentioned in this episode

Study by Father Paul Sullins, “Is Catholic clergy sexual abuse related to homosexual priests?”
Evolving Visions Of The Priesthood: Changes from Vatican II to the Turn of the New Century by Dean R. Hoge
Center for Applied Research In the Apostolate website
The Changing Face Of The Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest's Crisis of Soul by Donald Cozzens
Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse In the Catholic Church by Leon Podles

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 115 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	Welcome to the show.
0:05.0	This is the first episode in a multi-part series on the roots, causes, and hopefully resolutions
0:11.5	and purifications of the Catholic priest abuse crisis.
0:15.7	In this first episode, we're going to do a deep dive into the data, summarizing both John Jay reports,
0:21.2	a Los Angeles Times summary, and the data given to us by the USCCB.
0:26.2	Now if you hear the word sociology and your eyes glaze over, don't worry, we're going to break
0:30.2	it down to where I need it at the sixth grade level. Don't miss this first
0:33.5	episode with Father Paul Sans on the Patrick Coffin Show.
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