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The scope of the abuse of nuns by clergy members first came to light with the publication at the beginning of February of the monthly Vatican magazine "Women Church World." The edition included Francis' own take on the scandal -- long known about by the Vatican but virtually never discussed -- in which he blamed the unchecked power wielded by priests and higher clergy across the Catholic Church for such crimes.
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Women Church World? That's not even proper American. But the RC (pronounced arsey, as one of my children pointed out) church has only itself to blame. If they did not insist that their priests remained "celibate" - by which I assume they mean "unmarried" - in the most foully blatant contravention of 1 Corinthians 7:8-9, then they would not have this problem as their clergy would not be reduced to raping mustachioed old women and choirboys.