description: Groundbreaking scientific study of the subculture of Roman Catholic Priests and of clergy sexual abuse victims conducted prior to the 2002 public clergy abuse revelations, which correlations led to a 2004 literary study on intense loneliness and lack of intimacy in the priesthood. Uncovered in the Priest Study (1997): 1) Priests that with conflicting attitudes and behaviors that did not match; 2) Priests that were extremely lonely and suffered from lack of intimacy, and; 3) According to priest respondents, a hierarchy that ignored dysfunctional sexual activity unless it became public knowledge. Uncovered in the Victim Study (1999): 1) Victim and priest perpetrator profiles that were significantly different from child sexual abuse victims and perpetrators among the general population; 2)While adolescent boys (i.e., altar servers) were primary targets for priests (93%),adult victims over 20 years old were primarily female (94.5%), ruling out a possible homosexual factor among abusing priests, and; 3) Victims, as angry as they were, retrospectively indicated that priests were lonely, linking with the priest study. Sociological tables with chi squares of .000 and .001 emphasize the Bingo! findings effect an AHA! Moment in Catholic clergy sexual abuse. It also includes a bibliography of over 150 titles, mostly researched prior to 2002 when the public and news media were still in denial.
language: English
title: The Bingo Report: Mandatory Celibacy and Clergy Sexual Abuse
titlecomplete: The Bingo Report: Mandatory Celibacy and Clergy Sexual Abuse
publisher: CSRI Books