Note
Author affiliated with
Queen’s University.
"September 12, 2008"--Cornwall Public Inquiry website.
"Report of the Cornwall Public Inquiry - Research Papers"--Cornwall Public Inquiry website.
"Commissioned Phase 1 Research Papers"--Cornwall Public Inquiry website.
Summary issued in French under title: Résumé des principales conclusions et tableau récapitulatif tirés du document intitulé : a survey of policies and practices in respect to responses by religious institutions to complaints of child sexual abuse and complaints by adults of historical child sexual abuse 1960-2000.
The original document was published on the public website of the Government of Ontario. © Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2008. Reproduced with permission.
Summary
Understandings of child sexual abuse have changed greatly over the years since
1960, not only within religious institutions but also within wider society. As will become
evident throughout this report, the ways in which human sexuality, the image of the
clergy person, underlying theological convictions, church structure, and the wider
Canadian context, are constructed and understood, are all factors that have influenced the
responses of different religious institutions to child sexual abuse.