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Former Dominican leader says clergy need "mature sexuality" October 29, 2004
The former worldwide head of the Dominican order has argued that the sex-abuse scandal was caused in large part by a failure to train clergy in "mature sexuality."
Father Timothy Radcliffe told an Australian radio audience: "Where we've had these scandals of sexual abuse, it's often, I think, because of a failure to help people to grow in that mature, equal relationship with other people." He argued that seminary training in the past has encouraged simplistic solutions to sexual problems, and that priests "can't the young unless they’ve pretty nakedly faced what goes on in their own hearts.".
The former Dominican master general said that clerics must be taught "how to be intimate in a way that's appropriate and beautiful."
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