TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Generativity and the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops' responses to priests' sexual abuse of minors
JO  - Journal of religion and health
A1  - McGrath-Merkle, Clare
SP  - 73
EP  - 86
VL  - 49
IS  - 1
N2  - In this article, Erik Erikson's and subsequent researchers' ideas on generativity are applied to "the clerical abuse crisis," in which 111 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops protected priests rather than safeguard children. The goal was to discover what psychological dispositions led bishops to act in the manner they did. A case is made that pre-existing tendencies coupled with an all-male, celibate environment and formation indoctrination led to deficits in psychological development, moral judgment and leadership capacity, revealing an Episcopal subculture characterized by pseudo-speciation and authoritism.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4197
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-009-9288-0
ID  - ref1
ER  -