Introduction

What is it about?

This chapter discusses the overview of this book. It provides a brief social context of the current clerical abuse of the Catholic clergy in the world. It explains the statement of the problem of the research in which this book is based, as well as the methodology, the review of the related literature, and the theoretical framework in analyzing the persistence of clerical abuse of the secular clergy in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy. Finally, it provides a roadmap of the book and summaries of the chapters. Beyond clericalism and psychological causes of clerical sexual abuse, this book argues that sexual misconduct by the Catholic clergy in the Roman Catholic Church has social roots and global dimensions which require a structural investigation into the loopholes in the social interaction and control systems in the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community.

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