SEATTLE — A lay review panel in the Archdiocese of Seattle said the Catholic Church’s celibacy requirement for priests helped “set the stage for the deviant behavior” of clergy sexual abuse. The 10-member Case Review Board said mandatory celibacy was one “contributing factor” to the sexual abuse scandal by blurring distinctions between “deviant or exploitative behavior and normal but unacceptable…
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