© 2017 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. She jabbed a finger at a picture of a sad, balding figure wearing a priest's clerical collar. ''The issue is not unique to the United States, but what is unique here is that it is possible to discuss the issue in the open. That may be changing: On a handful of occasions recently, Rome has appeared to have forced the resignation of a bishop over this issue, and late last year the Vatican issued new standards requiring that cases be reported to Rome.But the pope's recent comments on the issue have been quite general - for example, in his Holy Thursday letter to priests this month he wrote, ''As priests we are personally and profoundly afflicted by the sins of some of our brothers who have betrayed the grace of ordination. ''The whole world has a problem, but it gets brought into sharper perspective in the so-called First World,'' Pelton said. ''Other theologians suggest that because of the frail health of Pope John Paul II, the Vatican will have a hard time acting on this issue. In several parts of the English-speaking world, clergy sexual abuse scandals have erupted over the last two decades, costing the church hundreds of millions of dollars and immeasurable goodwill.Australia has been particularly hard hit by clergy sexual abuse; in 1996, after years of accusations, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference declared, ''We acknowledge with deep sadness and regret that a number of clergy and religious [nuns and brothers] have sexually abused children, adolescents, and adults who have been in their pastoral care. ''Research suggests ... that the sexual abuse of children is a problem for the church everywhere,'' Guido wrote in the current issue of America magazine, a Jesuit weekly.However, he wrote, outside North America the religious order superiors were more likely to be aware of sexual misconduct by priests with adults, rather than children. ''The Vatican is, at the moment, effectively leaderless, given the pope's serious physical impairments,'' said the Rev. If you have information on child abuse by priests, call Spotlight Team Investigation: Abuse in the Catholic Church. It's not that they don't feel bad for the victims, but they think the clamor for them to apologize is fed by other factors that they don't want to capitulate to. Lawrence M. Njoroge, a professor of ethics at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya. It requires time for issues to arise. ''Certain negative situations cannot cause to be forgotten the frequently heroic fidelity of the great majority of male religious, female religious, and priests. In France last year, a bishop was convicted of a crime for failing to report a pedophile priest to authorities. ''I think they think that eventually this is all going to fade away. Boston Catholic Thursday, 6/11/20, 8:00am - Wednesday, 6/2/21, 11:30pm. At least 14 bishops have been forced to quit over sex abuse since 1990, in most cases because of their own sexual behavior, but in three cases because they were accused of protecting priests.In Canada, a scandal erupted in 1988 over allegations of widespread abuse of children at a Catholic orphanage, Mount Cashel, in Newfoundland.

''The Vatican is a very protective world, and there's a whole way of proceeding with secrecy and denial,'' said the Rev.

''In Latin America, it's more difficult to challenge the church, and so many people will say they're worried about their next meal and these types of concerns. North America is home to just 9 percent of the world's Catholics, and Europe to 27 percent.Pope John Paul II has devoted considerable attention to evangelization in the developing world and has made an effort to increase its power in the global church by creating cardinals from developing nations.Academics and church officials familiar with the church in the Third World say the problem of clergy sexual abuse is generally not talked about there, so it is difficult to determine whether it exists to the same extent as in the United States. ''That may be changing, particularly in Chile, where there are currently at least five high-profile cases in which priests are accused of sexually abusing minors. The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage.We reached out to Vatican officials for a statement regarding the new reporting on children of priests, but they declined to comment.Watch CBS News anytime, anywhere with the our 24/7 digital news network.

''The problem is known, and is restricted to a geographically limited area,'' the Vatican said. ''It is salutary to recall that the United States accounts for a paltry 6 percent of the world's Catholics, and that the fastest-growing Catholic centers are all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America - areas that do not share the American fascination with clerical scandal. The Vatican has long had a love-hate relationship with the United States, which is home to just 6 percent of the world's Catholics, and, in the face of low church attendance in Europe and broad dissent in the United States, it has targeted the developing world as the future heart of the church.

A look at The Boston Globe, the newspaper that first uncovered extensive sexual abuse cover-ups in the city's Catholic Church. ''A victims group, Broken Rites, lists more than 50 Australian priests and brothers who have been prosecuted for sexual crimes.The Irish government is opening an inquiry into sexual abuse by priests after the resignation of Bishop Brendan Comiskey for failing to act against a pedophile priest.

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