Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity among Clergy: How Spiritual Directors can Help in the Context of Seminary Formation

Gregoire, Jocelyn; Jungers, Chrissy

doi:10.1080/10720160490458256

Cited by 4 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 4 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…However, such complexity, while needing to be acknowledged and challenged, are beyond this article. Nevertheless, the element of clergy sexual addiction is one that has been previously explored and, in some depth, (see Fones et al 1999;Gregoire and Jungers 2004). Sex-addicted clergy do commit CSMAA but while it may be a way of explaining CSMAA, sex addiction cannot be used to excuse it in any way.…”

Section: Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unchaste Celibates: Clergy Sexual Misconduct against Adults—Expressions, Definitions, and Harms

Weger

2022

Religions

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

There is an ignored, misunderstood, and complex reality within the broader clergy sexual abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Church (RCC)—that of clergy sexual misconduct against adults (CSMAA). Estimates and calculations of numbers of victims/survivors over the last half-century reach into the early millions. Furthermore, evidence reveals that CSMAA does produce many serious personal, relational, and practical harms. This article presents and discusses the many expressions of such harms. However, even with the evidence of such harms CSMAA events are, for the most part, still generally perceived as consensual affairs. Such a perception is challenged when CSMAA is contextualised within a professional misconduct framework, and even more so, when survivors thereof participate in the research. Furthermore, CSMAA is clearly not just one type of event. Accordingly, this article also presents a continuum of expressions of CSMAA to assist with perceptual accuracy of this issue along with an unambiguous definition of CSMAA.

show abstract

Section: Andmentioning

confidence: 99%