Sex abuse

A Slaughter of Innocence

Making it through the dark night of the priest pedophilia crisis and arriving at truth and reconciliation requires an unflinching examination of our...

A mother’s anguish

In an essay from 2005, one mother shares the lifetime of suffering beneath the clergy sex-abuse headlines. I am a mother of a son who was sexually abused...

Whitewash or renewal?

In year two of the sex-abuse scandal, it it time for the laity to brush up on their leadership skills? About 200 laypeople from some 50 Chicago-area parishes...