SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Cases in the 21st Century

[Info] Béraud, Céline, et al. »From Cases to Scandals: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: An Introduction.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 1-15.

[Info] Böhm, Bettina, et al. »Child Sexual Abuse in the Context of the Roman Catholic Church: A Review of Literature from 1981-2013.« Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 23 (2014): 635-656.

[Info] Dressing, Harald, et al. »Sexual abuse of minors within the Catholic Church and other institutions: An literature review.« neuropsychiatrie (April 12, 2017).

[Info] Hilpert, Konrad, et al., eds. Sexueller Missbrauch von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Raum der Kirche: Analysen – Bilanzierungen – Perspektiven. Freiburg 2020.

[Info] Keenan, Marie. Child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture. Oxford 2012.

[Info] O'Donoghue, Thomas. »Child-abuse scandals and the Catholic Church: are we asking the right historical questions?« History of Education Review 32 (2003): 1-15.

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[Info] Terry, Karen. »Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Global Review of 20 Years of Research.« 77^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Atlanta 2022.

A m e r i c a n H i s t o r y

[Site] Argentine History

I. Author Index

[Info] Martínez-Ariño, Julia. »“It Is the Abuses That Made Me Click”: Formal Disaffiliation as Mobilization against the Catholic Church.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 127-144.

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[Site] Canadian History

I. Author Index

[Info] Meunier, E.-Martin, et al. »The Catholic Church and the Scandal of Indigenous Unmarked Graves: A Catalyst of Social, Political and Historical Tensions towards Catholicism in Canada.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 238-263.

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[Info] Redmond, Sheila A. »It Can't Be True and If It Is, It's Not Our Fault: An Examination of Roman Catholic Institutional Response to Priestly Paedophilia in the Ottawa Valley.« Canadian Society of Church History 1993 Annual Meeting. Ottawa 1993.

[Site] Chilean History

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Pinto-Cortez, Cristián, et al. »Abuso sexual eclesiástico en Chile: Las interpretaciones de altos representantes de la Iglesia Católica ante las acusaciones.« Interciencia 45 (2020): 409-416.

[Site] U.S. History

Orders: Society of Jesus

I. Author Index

[Info] Clites, Brian. »In Search of a Historiography of Clergy Sexual Abuse.« U.S. Catholic Historian 41 (2023): 79-102.

[Info] Clites, Brian. »Clergy Sexual Abuse.« The Routledge History of Religion and Politics in the United States sind 1775. Edited by Cara L. Burnidge. New York 2025: 472-481.

[Info] Faggioli, Massimo. »From ‘Clergy Sexual Abuse’ to a More Comprehensive Concept of Abuse in the Catholic Church: Major Cultural and Social Shifts in the USA.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 38-55.

[Info] Jones, Eleanor. “In God We Trust”: A Legal History of the Emergence, Development and Influence of the Sexual Abuse Scandal within America's Catholic Clergy. B.A. Thesis, University of Sydney, 2011.

[Info] O’Neill, Kevin L. Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad. Oakland 2025.

[Info] Slawson, Douglas J. »Outrage in Boston: Sexual Abuse Scandal and the Downfall of Cardinal Bernard Law.« American Catholic Studies 128 (2017): 55-82.

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[Info] Holscher, Kathleen. »Decolonizing the Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis.« Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Honolulu 2019.

[Site] South American History

I. Author Index

[Info] Lecaros, Véronique, et al, eds. Abuse in the Latin American Church: An Evolving Crisis at the Core of Catholicism. London 2024.

II. Speaker Index

E u r o p e a n H i s t o r y

[Site] Austrian History

I. Author Index

[Info] Lueger-Schuster, Brigitte, et al. Psychotraumatologische Fragestellungen zu Gewalt und Missbrauch in der Katholischen Kirche. Vienna 2012.

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[Site] Croatian History

I. Author Index

[Info] Bajić, Nikolina H., et al. »Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Croatia: Cases but Not (Yet?) Scandals.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 205-221.

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[Site] Czech History

I. Author Index

[Info] Opatrný, Michal. »Clerical Offenders as Family Friends: A Pilot Study of Case-to-Scandal Dynamics in Czechia Using Open-Source Data.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 264-280.

II. Speaker Index

[Site] Dutch History

I. Author Index

[Info] Gärtner, Stefan. »Sexual Abuse in the Dutch Roman Catholic Church.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 75-93.

II. Speaker Index

[Site] French History

Dioceses: Archdiocese of Paris | Institutions: L'Arche | Offenders: Tony Anatrella, Jean Vanier

I. Author Index

[Info] Airiau, Paul, et al. Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église catholique en France (1950-2020): Une Analyse sociohistorique. 2021.

[Info] Airiau, Paul. »Sanctionner les crimes et délits sexuels dans l'Église catholique en France: Une première approche (1950-2020).« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 57-72.

[Info] Béraud, Céline. »The Sauvé Report: What’s Next? Anatomy of the French Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 94-109.

[Info] Boullu, Thomas. »L'évolution de la répression judiciaire des abus sexuels commis par des clercs sur les personnes en situation de vulnérabilité (1950-2020).« Revue du droit des religions No.12 (2021): 129-142.

[Info] Boullu, Thomas, et al. »Introduction.« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 9-12.

[Info] Boullu, Thomas, et al., eds. Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Strasbourg 2023.

[Info] Darsonville, Audrey. »« Dissiper les ténèbres », une proposition de justice restaurative.« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 39-56.

[Info] Douteau, Clémence. »An Aborted Scandal? Denunciatory Discourse and Media Marginalization of Sexually Abused Nuns in France.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 166-184.

[Info] Gonçalves, Bruno. »Le sceau sacramentel en question: Essai d'analyse juridico-canonique des recommandations de la CIASE.« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 73-91.

[Info] Lancien, Anne. »Dissemblances et convergences des commissions d'enquête sur les abus sexuels dans l'Église.« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 93-108.

[Info] Portier, Philippe. »La CIASE, l'Église et l'État: Une réflexion sur la pratique française de la laïcité.« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 13-37.

[Info] Portier, Philippe. »Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church in Franc: Contribution to the Sociology of a Scandal.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 16-37.

[Info] Sauvé, Jean-Marc. Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church France 1950 - 2020: Final Report French Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church (CIASE). Paris 2021.

[Info] Sauvé, Jean-Marc. Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église catholique France 1950-2020: Rapport de la Commission indépendante sur les abus sexuels dans l'Église. Paris 2021.

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[Info] Faggioli, Massimo. »Testifying to the Toward a Global History of the Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church: A Comparison between the Institutional Responses in the United States, Australia, France, and Germany, 2002–22.« 103^rd Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association. Philadelphia 2023.

[Site] German History

Dioceses: Archdiocese of Paderborn, Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen, Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster, Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer | Orders: Order of Friars Minor

I. Author Index

[Info] Dreßing, Harald, et al. »Sexueller Missbrauch von Kindern durch katholische Priester seit 2009: Verlauf und relative Häufigkeit im Vergleich zur männlichen Allgemeinbevölkerung.« Psychiatrische Praxis 46 (2019): 256-262.

[Info] Dreßing, Harald. »Das Ausmaß der Vertuschung: Neue Analysen der MHG-Daten belasten die Kirche im Vergleich der Institutionen. Herder-Korrespondenz 74 (2020): 13-16.

[Info] Gebrande, Julia, et al., eds. Machtmissbrauch in der katholischen Kirche: Aufarbeitung und Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt. Hildesheim 2019.

[Info] Gebrande, Julia. »Sexualisisierte Gewalt in der katholischen Kirche: Ein Überblick über aktuelle Forschungen und Entwicklungen und ihre Konsequenzen.« Kindesmisshandlung und - vernachlässigung 22 (2019): 44-55.

[Info] Große Kracht, Klaus. »Les abus sexuels dans l'Église catholique allemande: Perspectives historiques et résultats.« Les violences sexuelles dans l'Église. Retour sur les travaux de la CIASE. Edited by Thomas Boullu et al. Strasbourg 2023: 109-123.

[Info] Haslbeck, Barbara. Sexueller Missbrauch an Ordensfrauen im deutschsprachigen Raum: Ein unterschätztes Phänomen und seine systemischen Bedingungen. Freiburg 2025.

[Info] Kron, Thomas, et al., eds. Kirche und Gewalt: Ursachen – Dimensionen – Folgen. Freiburg 2024.

[Info] Leygraf, Norbert, et al. Sexuelle Übergriffe durch katholische Geistliche in Deutschland: Eine Analyse forensischer Gutachten 2000-2010. Bonn 2012.

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[Site] Irish History

Representations: Films: The Magdalene Sisters; Radio: What the Bishops Knew

I. Author Index

[Info] Kenny, Colum. »Significant Television: Journalism, Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in Ireland.« Irish Communications Review 11 (2009): 63-76.

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[Site] Italian History

I. Author Index

[Info] Guglielmi, Marco. »A (Non)Disruptive Scandal? The Fragmented Societalization of the Problem of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 185-204.

[Info] Manfroi, Alice. Il Caso Spotlight: Come ha reagito la Chiesa cattolica in Italia. Tesi, Università degli Studi dei Padova, 2022.

[Info] Sbalchiero, Stefano, et al. »From Cases to Scandals? Media Representations of Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Italy.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 145-165.

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[Site] Polish History

I. Author Index

[Info] Ratajczak, Magdalena. »Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland: The he Role of Media and Cinema.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 281-296.

[Info] Sadlon, Wojciech, et al. »Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland From 1950 to 2021: Methodology and Results.« Sexual Abuse (September 15, 2025).

[Info] Więcek-Durańska, Anna. »Clergy-perpetrated sexual crime against minors: Case study.« Psychiatria Polska (October 5, 2020).

[Info] Więcek-Durańska, Anna. »Przestępczość seksualna duchownych wobec osób małoletnich: Analiza przypadków.« Psychiatria Polska (October 5, 2020).

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[Site] Portuguese History

I. Author Index

[Info] Ramos, Vasco, et al. »From percentages to narratives: Giving silence a voice in child sexual abuse within the Portuguese Catholic Church, 1950–2022.« Child Abuse & Neglect 154 (2024).

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[Site] Spanish History

I. Author Index

[Info] Rashid, Faisal, et al. »Clerical Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in Spain: A Contemporary or Historical Phenomenon?« Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 23 (Fall 2022): 227-237.

II. Speaker Index

[Site] Swiss History

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bignasca, Vanessa, et al. Bericht zum Pilotprojekt zur Geschichte sexuellen Missbrauchs im Umfeld der römisch-katholischen Kirche in der Schweiz seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bern 2023.

[Info] Bignasca, Vanessa, et al. Rapport concernant le projet pilote sur l’histoire des abus sexuels dans le contexte de l’Église catholique romaine en Suisse depuis le milieu du 20ème siècle. Bern 2023.

[Info] Bignasca, Vanessa, et al. Rapporto sul progetto pilota per la storia degli abusi sessuali nel contesto della Chiesa cattolica romana in Svizzera a partire dalla metà del XX secolo. Bern 2023.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Karasek, David, int. »Sexueller Missbrauch in der katholischen Kirche der Schweiz.« Tagesgespräch. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen 2023.

[Site] Vatican History

I. Author Index

[Info] Conway, Brian. »Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Cases in Catholicism: Centering the Role of the Vatican.« Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion 16 (2025): 56-74.

[Info] Regoli, Roberto. Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI. South Bend 2024.

[Info] Tapsell, Kieran J. Potiphar's Wife: The Vatican's Secret and Child Sexual Abuse. Hindmarsh 2014.

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O c e a n i a n H i s t o r y

[Site] Australian History

Orders: Marist Brotherhood

I. Author Index

[Info] Death, Jodi. »Bad Apples, Bad Barrel: Exploring Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Clergy in Australia.« International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4 (2015): 94-110.

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