{"id":787,"date":"2011-06-07T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=787"},"modified":"2011-06-07T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:23:29","slug":"catholic-bishops-plan-seattle-meeting-on-clergy-abuse-global-scandal-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/06\/catholic-bishops-plan-seattle-meeting-on-clergy-abuse-global-scandal-spreads.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishops Plan Seattle Meeting on Clergy Abuse; Global Scandal Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionlink.com\/tip_110607.php\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Catholic bishops will meet in Seattle June 15-17<\/a> to consider revising their policy on clergy sex abuse: the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccbuscc.org\/ocyp\/charter.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Charter for the Protection of Children and Young  People<\/a>,\u00a0passed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic  Bishops in June 2002, as the scandal had broken wide open nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Although the John Jay College of Criminal Justice&#8217;s\u00a0report last month<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/05\/study-blames-poor-training-not-celibacy-or-homosexuality-for-catholic-clergy-abuse.html\"> controversially concluded that the American scandal was some kind of 1960s-1970s aberration <\/a>&#8212; blame free love and Woodstock, if you will &#8212; I can&#8217;t imagine the bishops will be able to ignore the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/catholic-clergy-abuse-scandal-rocks-philadelphia.html\">recent headlines out of Philadelphia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionlink.com\/tip_110607.php\">Kansas City<\/a>, in addition to all the victims still coming forward to report older cases. \u00a0The Vatican has also issued new guidelines for bishops conferences internationally, as the scandal has spread through Europe and other parts of the world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/06\/sex-abuse-ireland-pope-\/1?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Religion-TopStories+%28News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland&#8217;s Catholics, Hard Hit By Abuse Crisis, Await Vatican Action<\/a> (USA Today&#8217;s Faith &amp; Reason blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idCATRE7505ZI20110601\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian Abuse Victims to File Suit Against Vatican <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/06\/06\/asian-bishops-say-abuse-i_n_872081.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Bishops Say Abuse &#8216;Isn&#8217;t Just a Problem of the West&#8217; <\/a>(Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Incidentally, I&#8217;m a little bitter that major religion news is happening in Seattle while I&#8217;ll be on vacation. Oh well. I guess we&#8217;ll always have Anthony Weiner&#8217;s Weinergate (unveiled due to his crotch-shot Tweet to a<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/thebigblog\/2011\/06\/06\/classmates-said-weinergate-woman-was-headed-for-tabloid-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\"> college student here<\/a>), the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/bishop-gene-robinson-assure-gay-teens-it-gets-better.html\" target=\"_blank\">It Gets Better project <\/a>(launched by Seattle-based columnist Dan Savage)\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/seattle-faith-news-new-catholic-archbishop-appointed-draw-muhammad-cartoonist-goes-into-hiding.html\" target=\"_blank\">Everyone Draw Muhammad Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click  here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat <\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief  Beat on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Catholic bishops will meet in Seattle June 15-17 to consider revising their policy on clergy sex abuse: the\u00a0Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,\u00a0passed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in June 2002, as the scandal had broken wide open nationally. 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