Homosexuality and the clergy abuse crisis: an overview
Telling seminaries to protect boys from abusers by banning gay persons will function so as to blind communities to those most likely to abuse.
Category: clergy abuse crisis
Clergy abuse, diocesan response, and moral duplicity
Many Catholics are committed to a sort of bourgeois church life, where conflicts which could upend communities and challenge the status quo are avoided and, thus, the problems are perpetuated.
Catholicism needs trauma-informed approaches to sexual abuse
Responding to a victim of sexual assault is a matter of either trauma disruption or trauma creation.
The Quarantine and the Clergy Abuse Crisis
Want to know how your pastors would’ve responded in the clergy abuse crisis? Observe how they respond to a global pandemic.
A Survivor Speaks: What Catholics Have Said to Me
Responses by Catholics that simply “prayer is the answer” can be re-traumatizing, a re-inflicting of the abuse.
Benedict vs. Francis vs. Vatican II: In Benedict’s Recent Words
In my previous post I discussed Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s letter to Bavarian clergy on “the Church and the scandalContinue Reading
It’s ok to be wounded on Easter
A part of me wants to believe that the Resurrection means an erasure of all of the ways I have wronged and been wrong.
Benedict and the Crisis: What does theologizing have to do with the abuse of children?
When children are being raped by priests, why should we care whether theologians focus on a morality grounded in Greek philosophy or a pragmatic theology that exclusively utilizes Scriptural texts?
In The Atlantic: Parents Respond to the Clergy Abuse Crisis
“There’s no way I would let my child be an altar server.”
Clerical Transparency vs. “Coming Out”
“I have no patience for priests who ‘come out’ as gay and insist the priesthood is some sort of cage.”
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