ABSTRACT

This article aims to provide an overview of the most recent research on child sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church that occurred in Italy and France. The studies reported here have been selected as representative of major trends in the field. In particular, they illustrate the paths taken by current scholarship addressing child sexual abuse that has occurred in mono-confessional Catholic culture areas not yet affected by large-scale scandals. The assessment of the last two decades of literature shows that existing research attests the presence of regional patterns regarding the incidence of confirmed cases of abuse, the cover–up procedures, and the reactions of both ecclesiastical and civil institutions and society. However, this review also indicates that scholars have thus far neglected to problematize the local peculiarities of the phenomenon, and to relate them to the broader debate on regional variability in the articulation of modernization processes and religious vitality and power.

摘要

本文旨在概述最近发生在意大利和法国的天主教会成员对儿童性虐待的研究。此处报告的研究已被选为该领域主要趋势的代表。特别是，它们说明了当前奖学金所采取的途径，解决在尚未受到大规模丑闻影响的单一信仰天主教文化地区发生的儿童性虐待问题。对过去 20 年文献的评估表明，现有研究证明了在确认的虐待案件发生率、掩盖程序以及教会和民间机构和社会的反应方面存在区域模式。然而，