Sports, at the professional and amateur levels, are enormously popular, and yet athletics are also linked to scandal and controversy in today’s headlines. In the case of allegations of child abuse, the crisis in sports recalls the problem in organized religions, and also highlights the nexus between religion and sports.
The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops met in June in Seattle to revise policies approved nearly a decade ago in response to the clergy sexual-abuse crisis. Many argue that recent developments show the bishops have even more work to do.
As Pope Benedict XVI entered the sixth year of his papacy, the pontiff came under increasing scrutiny and intense criticism over his approach to revelations of sexual abuse by clergy.
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