Talk:Catholic sex abuse cases

Further reading

This seems to be one newspaper article out of hundreds so I have removed it from "Further Reading". Perhaps another editor can include this information in the body of the text, or as a reference. This would seem the better place for a specific article, rather than in a list of books:

• Lobdell, William, "Missionary's Dark Legacy; Two remote Alaska villages are still reeling from a Catholic volunteer's sojourn three decades ago, when he allegedly molested nearly every Eskimo boy in the parishes. The accusers, now men, are scarred emotionally and struggle to cope. They are seeking justice." Los Angeles Times, Nov 19, 2005, p. A.1Cistercian (talk) 10:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Conference

Afp article which reports that Cardinal William Levada, the head of the Church's main enforcement body, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, opened the conference saying the Vatican had received more than 4,000 denunciations over the past decade.

and also reports Papal biographer Marco Politi said: "The meeting is a historic watershed because for the first time the Vatican is going to analyse on an international level the responsibility of the Church for child abuse." EdwardLane (talk) 14:42, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Parity across similar articles?

This appears in the lead of Scouting sex abuse cases, and has lasted there for a long time:-

It is felt by some that the incidence of sexual abuse is exaggerated, however, in any organization as large as the Boy Scouts, there is a chance for abuse to occur. Children of parents who have been told about what to look out for and have an open relationship with their parents about sexual matters are much less likely to become victims of abuse.

As editors seem to think this sort of thing belongs in a lead for such articles, I have added similar to the lead of this article.Testbed (talk) 10:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

It's unsourced, and obviously somebody's personal opinion. I don't think it belongs, so I've taken it back out. Happy to await input from others on this discussion. Might also pop over to Scouting sex abuse cases to see how it got there too. HiLo48 (talk) 21:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

May I ask - what do other editors think about this as an approach to this article?:-

My broad view on the article is that because of its sensitivity, everything in it must be very well sourced, and it must deal fairly and sensibly with the variations in approaches around the world. Timing is an issue too. If a sex abuse case occurred twenty years ago, it should not be mentioned in isolation without extensive coverage of what that country's Catholic administration has done about sex abuse in general since then. In many cases, that's an awful lot.

Testbed (talk) 11:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)