Sex abuse

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...

Domestic traffick report

Not all persons trafficked in the United States are coming in from distant points in Asia, Europe, or Central America. Some U.S. victims of trafficking and...

Hidden in plain sight

The shadow world of human trafficking The beating was the final straw. The relentless daily psychological abuse had been bad enough; the endless days of work...

Bad news on the rise

A long line has formed at the information desk at Borders, so I wait my turn behind a student studying her syllabus and a tourist-type, probably looking for a...