The biggest question in the sex abuse crisis is why some bishops still have their jobs. It could have come out of any newspaper’s police blotter: Adult male...
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Find resources and stories about sexual abuse in the church that support survivors, promote healing, and prevent abuse in parishes and institutions.
Despite the steps taken to protect children in recent years, Justice Anne Burke says that recent development suggest little has changed for the hierarchy. Just...
For more than a decade, stories in the media have highlighted the problem of clergy sexual abuse of minors. Much of the recent focus has been on Europe, though...
The sex abuse crisis should teach us that it takes more than a seminary to raise a priest. In the spring of my first year of college, I wrote my bishop and...
Making it through the dark night of the priest pedophilia crisis and arriving at truth and reconciliation requires an unflinching examination of our...
Preventing child sexual abuse begins with talking to your children about it. Dolores Curran provides some strategies to help. This formerly confident and...
Then head of the National Review Board, Frank Keating shared his view of the church's response to the sex abuse crisis with U.S. Catholic in 2003...
A religion educator explains the progams aimed at preventing and detecting sexual abuse in this article from 2006. Five years ago I was asked to teach a...
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...
For many, it is one of those assuring, evocative aromas, the kind that launches a cascade of warm and welcome childhood memories and recollections of sacred...
