Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2006
Publisher
Regis University
Abstract
The recent clergy sexual abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church have focused a great deal of attention on how we evaluate applicants to the priesthood and religious life. The crisis has underscored the critical need to ensure that men who have a sexual predilection towards children be barred from entering religious life and priesthood. Additionally, men who have other significant psychiatric conditions that put them at risk of harming children or others have no place as Church leaders or clergy in positions where they have access to and power over vulnerable others.
Recommended Citation
Plante, T. G. (2006). The psychological assessment of applicants for priesthood and religious life. Human Development, 27, 45-48.
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Comments
This is the author accepted manuscript.