The Eastern Orthodox Church ,, the Roman Catholic Church Seventh-day Adventist Church, do not condemn same-sex sexual attraction in itself.

The Roman Catholic Church views as sinful any sexual act not related to procreation by couple joined under the Sacrament of Matrimony.

* 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.

Some contemporary Catholic theologians, such as John Wijngaards, dispute the Magisterium's interpretation of Natural Law as applied to specific points of sexual ethics, such as in the areas of contraceptives and homosexual unions.

It was in relation to the latter that, in November 2008, the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati decided that a case over sexual abuse by Catholic priests could proceed, provided the plaintiffs could prove that the bishops accused of negligent supervision were acting as employees or agents of the Holy See and were following official Holy See policy.

" This would mean that the sexual revolution, counterculture, youth rebellion and so on never developed during that decade in Spain's conservative Roman Catholic culture and under Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime.

* Ferns Inquiry, an Irish government inquiry into allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Irish Catholic Diocese of Ferns

Wim Deetman has been criticised by the Dutch parliament for failing to include evidence of castration in his report on sexual abuse by the Roman Catholic Church, when children were ' punished ' by castration in the 1950s for reporting sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests.

Law resigned as Archbishop of Boston on December 13, 2002, in response to the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal after church documents were revealed which suggested he had covered up sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese.

Cardinal Law's actions and inactions prompted public scrutiny of all members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the steps they had taken in response to past and current allegations of sexual misconduct at the hands of priests.

The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of convictions, trials and investigations into allegations of child sexual abuse crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of Roman Catholic orders against children as young as 3 years old with the majority between the ages of 11 and 14.

In Ireland, a report ( see Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse ) was made covering six decades ( from the 1950s ) noting " endemic " sexual abuse in Catholic boys ' institutions with church leaders aware of what was going on and government inspectors failing to " stop beatings, rapes and humiliation.

In 2006, a documentary called Deliver Us From Evil was made about sexual abuse and primarily focused on one priest and his crimes ; it also showed the lengths the Catholic Church would go to in order to cover up the many reports of sexual abuse.

" Altered Boy " on Exodus's album, Shovel Headed Kill Machine ( 2005 ), speaks against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Some claim that Catholic groups already had it in for Mae West ; they despised her sexual image and warned the sponsor of the program they were planning to protest.

Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

* 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $ 23. 4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

In April 2010 there was press coverage in Britain concerning a proposed plan by atheist campaigners and a prominent barrister to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested and prosecuted in the UK for alleged offences, dating from several decades before, in failing to take appropriate action regarding Catholic sex abuse cases and concerning their disputing his immunity from prosecution in that country.

* October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O ' Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.

' Whig ' was a term of abuse applied to those who wanted to exclude James on the grounds that he was a Roman Catholic.

: It's remarkable how little attention the press and politicians have given abuse of children in the film industry — especially in view of the coverage devoted to scandals in the Catholic Church.

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In 2010, during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the UK, it was cut down as a protest against a long history of child abuse at the Catholic St Williams School, Market Weighton, Yorkshire.

Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures such as her ordination as a priest despite being female with a Roman Catholic background, and her expressed strong views on organized religion, women's rights, war, and child abuse.

* Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

The events in the Archdiocese of Boston exploded into a national Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.

* Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

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The oldest Protestant groups separated from the Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Eastern Catholic cardinals continue to wear the normal dress appropriate to their liturgical tradition, though some may line their cassocks with scarlet and wear scarlet fascias, or in some cases, wear Eastern-style cassocks entirely of scarlet.

Today, in addition to the Orthodox Church, a number of other Christian churches lay claim to this title ( including the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Assyrian Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church ); however, the Orthodox Church considers these other churches to be schismatic and, in some cases, heretical.

Homes were plundered, there were cases of rape, churches were ransacked, religious symbols destroyed, and Catholic churches pressed into service for use as stores or for other military uses.

" During World War II, Jewish chaplains worked with Catholic priests and Protestant ministers to promote goodwill, addressing servicemen who, " in many cases had never seen, much less heard a Rabbi speak before.

In some cases those adhering to Catholicism faced capital punishment, and a number of English and Welsh Catholics executed in the 16th and 17th centuries have been canonised by the Catholic Church as Christian martyrs ( see Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation ).

While usually trying cases in appeal in third instance ( as is normally the case in the Eastern Catholic Churches ), or even in second instance if appeal is made to it directly from the sentence of a tribunal of first instance, it is also a court of first instance for cases specified in the law and for others committed to the Rota by the Roman Pontiff.

In such cases its competence includes marriages between two Catholics, between a Catholic and non-Catholic, and between two non-Catholic parties whether one or both of the baptized parties belongs to the Latin or an Eastern Rite.

One of the most infamous cases was the torture and execution by the SB of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popiełuszko in 1984.

In both cases, by favoring legitimate children born in a Church sanctioned marriage would facilitate better relations between their sons and the wider Anglo-Norman polity and Catholic Church by removing any " stigma " of illegitimacy.

In some cases, the two nouns are identical in form, with the difference only being marked in neighboring words ( due to gender agreement ; see below ); a Catholic man is un Catholique, while a Catholic woman is une Catholique.

Anglo-Catholics share with Roman Catholics a belief in the sacramental nature of the priesthood, the sacrificial character of the Mass and, in some cases, the doctrine of Transubstantiation, the Roman Catholic version of the doctrine of the Real Presence.

According to Mark Miravalle the English word " worship " is equivocal, in that it has been used in Catholic writing, at any rate, to denote both adoration / latria and veneration / dulia, and in some cases even as a synonym for veneration as distinct from adoration:

Prior to the Code of Canon Law of 1983, the Catholic Church expected in rare cases ( known as excommunication vitandi ) the faithful to shun an excommunicated member in secular matters.

The orthodox Catholic position was that the sacrament was for precisely such cases, though at the time the Church still followed the discipline of public penance whereby a penitent for such a grievous offence would spend years, even decades, first outside the doors of the church begging for the prayers of those entering, then kneeling inside the church building during services, then standing with the congregation, and finally receiving the Eucharist again in a long progress toward full reconciliation.

On Monday, June 25, 2012, according to an online Catholic News Service ( CNS ) news brief posted that day, the Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision and with the majority opinion written by Associate Justice Elena Kagan, that life in prison without parole as an automatic sentence would be considered unconstitutional in all cases in the United States.