See also:

• Society: Crime: Sex Offenses  (280)
• Society: Issues: Children, Youth and Family: Child Abuse  (712)

Abuse in the Catholic Church - Hub for articles and documents about the sexual abuse of children by priests and its effect on the Catholic Church. From the Boston Globe..

BishopAccountability.org - Documents the abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic church with archives of past court cases and survivor accounts..

The Catholic Church and Sex Abuse - News archive covering the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse cases involving priests and other church officials. At National Public Radio..

The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse by Priests - A look at the crisis over sex abuse by Catholic clergy, with backgrounders, breaking news, opinion..

Clergy Abuse Tracker - A digest of links to media coverage of clergy abuse..

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus - A layman's guide to surviving the sex scandals in the Catholic Church..

Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 2002 - From Pope John Paul II, includes apology for the abuse crimes within the clergy..

Restoring Trust - Proposals, policy statements, opinion pieces, and other documents related to sexual abuse by clergy, from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops..

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Sexual Abuse Statement - Official statement on the issue of sexual abuse of minors by clergy..

The Second Temptation of Christ - Speculates on the root cause of the sex scandals in the Catholic Church..

Sexual Abuse by Catholic Priests - Links to recent news stories involving abuse by the clergy..

Speak Truth to Power - Group protesting Catholic church's mismanagement of sexual abuse crisis. Offers activism resources..

Unholy Acts - 1993 essay published in the New Yorker about how an incident of sexual misconduct by a priest affected a small Catholic church in Massachusetts. By Paul Wilkes..

Online NewsHour: Church in Turmoil - PBS transcript of a report on the abuse scandals and reported cover-ups within the Catholic Church. (March 13, 2002).