scholarly journals Estándares contemporáneos de buena gobernanza. Factores sistémicos en la crisis de los abusos en la Iglesia Católica

Pelícano ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 072-097
Author(s):  
Carlos Schickendantz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Institutional Aspect ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Catholic Church

Contemporary Standards of Good Governance. Systemic Factors in The Crisis of Abuse in The Catholic Church ResumenLa cuestión del abuso sexual de menores constituye una de las crisis más significativas de la Iglesia Católica en la era moderna. En primer lugar, este artículo ofrece múltiples argumentos para la comprensión del asunto a partir de unos textos norteamericanos especializados. El segundo momento representa el núcleo de la contribución: con el análisis de varios informes de diferentes nacionalidades, particularmente australiano y alemán, se pone de relieve el aspecto institucional de lo sucedido en la Iglesia Católica, en especial sus disfunciones sistémicas que, como se muestra con diversos argumentos, converge con reflexiones ya elaboradas en agendas teológicas de reformas en la Iglesia. AbstractThe issue of sexual abuse of minors constitutes one of the most significant crises of the Catholic Church in the modern era. In the first place, this article offers several arguments for the understanding of the subject from specialized North American texts. The second moment represents the core of the contribution: with the analysis of several reports of different nationalities, particularly Australian and German, the institutional aspect of the issue that occurred in the Catholic Church is highlighted, especially its systemic dysfunctions, which, as depicted with various arguments, converges with reflections already elaborated in theological agendas of reforms in the Church. Key words: Clericalism, Governance System, Accountability, Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

scholarly journals Negotiating Social Inclusion: The Catholic Church in Australia and the Public Sphere

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Catholic Church

This paper argues that for religion, social inclusion is not certain once gained, but needs to be constantly renegotiated in response to continued challenges, even for mainstream religious organisations such as the Catholic Church. The paper will analyse the Catholic Church’s involvement in the Australian public sphere, and after a brief overview of the history of Catholicism’s struggle for equal status in Australia, will consider its response to recent challenges to maintain its position of inclusion and relevance in Australian society. This will include an examination of its handling of sexual abuse allegations brought forward by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and its attempts to promote its vision of ethics and morals in the face of calls for marriage equality and other social issues in a society of greater religious diversity.

Exceptional Sexual Harms

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 734-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Distinct Sense ◽  
Church Personnel

Questioning of Catholic Church leaders in the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has revealed a distinct sense of immunity and lack of responsibility for the crimes of church personnel, which has resulted in stymied justice for complainants in sexual abuse lawsuits. In this article, I explore this immunity by examining it in the context of treatments of sexual harms in other areas of private law, particularly religious exceptions to discrimination law, by which religious organizations are granted immunity from the modern rationale of the harms of discrimination on the grounds of sex and sexual orientation. In situating child sexual abuse claims in the broader sphere of private law, I aim to reveal law’s incoherent logic of sexual harms, and its implications for justice. The example of religious exceptions illustrates an incoherent problematization of sexual harm and responsibility in contemporary legal and political systems that aim to uphold modern values of equality and dignity while sustaining incompatible doctrines of religious autonomy.

The discursive production of public inquiries: The case of Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
pp. 174165902095345
Author(s):  
Matthew Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
News Media ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
The State ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
The Right ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Church

Since the turn of the century, public inquiries into the perpetration and concealment of child sexual abuse within religious institutions have proliferated throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. This article examines the role that news media discourses might play in supporting this trend. Taking Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a case study, I compare how news media constructed its precipitating issue of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church at two different points in time: the period surrounding the announcement of the Royal Commission and a period 10 years earlier when calls were made for a Royal Commission that were not actualised. I find that in the decade before the Royal Commission’s establishment news media deemed the Church capable of and responsible for delivering justice, and as such licensed it to respond to allegations of abuse internally. In the period surrounding the Royal Commission’s establishment, however, the Church was rendered complicit and had lost its authority to manage the issue internally, while the State had become marked as responsible for recourse instead. This suggests that the emergence of the Royal Commission was imbricated in broader discursive shifts regarding which institution was attributed the right and responsibility to respond. These findings both indicate that news media discourses may play a role in facilitating or inhibiting the emergence of public inquiries and also raise critical questions about the consequences of a discursive shift that centres the State as responsible for and capable of delivering justice in the aftermath of institutional child sexual abuse.

The spoken and unspoken nature of child abuse in the miniseries Devil’s Playground: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church and television drama in Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 159 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Terrie Waddell ◽  
Timothy W Jones
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Green Light ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Abusive Behaviour

In a departure from Fred Schepisi’s film The Devil’s Playground, the television sequel Devil’s Playground focuses on the cultural impact of priest child abuse. It will be argued that the prolific mainstream media coverage of these crimes before the series was made, and anticipated during its screening, lent a form of permission to green light the production. In focusing on Case 28 of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, this article will draw attention to the problematic nature of dramatising priest abuse in mainstream Australian television. While victims have willingly voiced graphic details of the sexual violence they experienced as children, after decades of silence, it is as if networks and producers are only now awkwardly grappling with these uncomfortable realities. In the process of sanitising such abusive behaviour, they reduce the degree of cruelty that survivors are intent on communicating.

Political risks of recovering and discovering meanings in the collective memory of a perverse religious organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Eduardo Acuña Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Conversion Event ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article refers to the political risks that a group of five parishioners, members of an aristocratic Catholic parish located in Santiago, Chile, had to face when they recovered and discovered unconscious meanings about the hard and persistent psychological and sexual abuse they suffered in that religious organisation. Recovering and discovering meanings, from the collective memory of that parish, was a sort of conversion event in the five parishioners that determined their decision to bring to the surface of Chilean society the knowledge that the parish, led by the priest Fernando Karadima, functioned as a perverse organisation. That determination implied that the five individuals had to struggle against powerful forces in society, including the dominant Catholic Church in Chile and the political influences from the conservative Catholic elite that attempted to ignore the existence of the abuses that were denounced. The result of this article explains how the five parishioners, through their concerted political actions and courage, forced the Catholic Church to recognise, in an ambivalent way, the abuses committed by Karadima. The theoretical basis of this presentation is based on a socioanalytical approach that mainly considers the understanding of perversion in organisations and their consequences in the control of anxieties.

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