Records: Priest in Ky. admitted sex addiction

 "Court records show a Roman Catholic priest accused of abusing boys in Kentucky in the 1970s told church officials he was a sex addict in 1985.

Records released Tuesday say the Rev. James R. Schook was not removed from ministry at the time because officials believed he was involved with men, not boys, according to The Courier-Journal (http://bit.ly/p6owkL). Instead, he was put into a treatment program.

Shook is now facing seven counts of sodomy in Jefferson Circuit Court involving two teens in the 1970s. He has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, David Lambertus, declined to comment to the newspaper about the released records."

 - Houston Chronicle

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Archbishop Tlhagale: Africa Not Exempt from Abuse

The Catholic Archbishop of my former original home diocese, Archbishop Buthi Tlhagale of Johannesburg, has formally acknowledged what would have been apparant oto anyne who gave the matter any thought: Africa ahs not been spared the problems with abuse, it has just not yet had the same media scrutiny.

Bishop: Africa Also Suffers Sex Abuse by Priests

A leading African Catholic archbishop says sexual abuse by Catholic clergy is a problem in Africa as well as in Western countries.
Archbishop of Johannesburg Buti Tlhagale said the church in Africa is inflicted with the same scourge as the churches in Ireland, Germany and America. He said the misbehaviour of priests in Africa simply has not been exposed to the same glare of the media.

Tlhagale said the image of the Catholic church is virtually in ruins because of the bad behaviour of its priests, whom he called "wolves wearing sheepskin."

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Archbishop Thlagale does not say so, but one of his own predecessors has been implicated. Bishop Hugh Boyle, who was ordinary while I was at school and at university in the diocese back in the 1960’s and early ‘70’s, was posthumously accused of abusing young children while he was patron of the Boys’ Town institution outside Johannesburg.