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Father Ed Donelan came to New Mexico from Massachusetts. The priest worked as a chaplain at a facility for “juvenile delinquents,” and later ran a home for boys he called the Hacienda de los Muchachos. Donelan sexually abused youth at both facilities. This essay considers how Donelan leveraged New Mexico’s juvenile justice and habilitation systems, and racial inequities baked into them, to abuse young people. Within those systems, a Catholic culture of clericalism granted Donelan unlimited access to youth, and enabled him to move unchecked between spiritual and quasi-parental forms of authority. Donelan’s story shows that clericalism is not a one-size-fits-all problem; it manifests differently in relation to different communities. Here clericalism intersects with place-based power structures of race and colonialism to damage in locally specific ways. Donelan’s case demonstrates that scholars who study clerical sexual abuse need to pay attention not only to priests, but also to church and state institutions that rendered certain populations of children especially vulnerable to their bad actions.
一个牧师、一个牧场和洛斯-穆查乔》(A Priest, a Ranch, and los Muchachos:新墨西哥州种族与教士虐待研究
Ed Donelan 神父从马萨诸塞州来到新墨西哥州。这位神父曾在一家 "少年犯 "机构担任牧师,后来又经营了一家名为 "Hacienda de los Muchachos "的男童之家。多纳兰在这两个机构中都对青少年实施过性虐待。这篇文章探讨了多纳兰如何利用新墨西哥州的少年司法和适应训练系统以及其中的种族不平等来虐待青少年。在这些系统中,天主教的神职文化给予了多纳兰无限接近青少年的机会,并使他能够在精神权威和准家长权威之间肆无忌惮地游走。多纳兰的故事表明,神职主义并不是一个放之四海而皆准的问题;它在不同的社区有不同的表现形式。在这里,教权主义与基于地方的种族和殖民主义权力结构交织在一起,以地方特有的方式造成损害。多纳兰的案例表明,研究神职人员性虐待问题的学者不仅需要关注牧师,还需要关注使某些儿童群体特别容易受到其恶劣行径影响的教会和国家机构。