Voices of Trinity: Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis
97% of the Trinity community responding to our survey agree that priests who abuse children should be prosecuted, and 87% believe that bishops who fail to report child abusers should also be prosecuted. Read more in our continuing analysis of the campus survey on sexual violence.
Engaging the Church in Crisis
Lay persons must be included in crafting solutions to the profound damage wrought by the clergy sex abuse crisis in the Church.
Clericalism’s Comeuppance
Clericalism walls off the men of the Church from the humanizing experiences, insights and wisdom of the laity, especially women.
Letter of Pope Francis on the Child Sex Abuse Crisis
‘With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and the gravity of the damage done to so many lives. We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them.”
Cardinal Sins
The Pope, cardinals, bishops and priests must work more humbly and urgently with the entire community of the Catholic Church to atone for the tragedies perpetrated by abusive ministers of the Church.
Adirondack Chronicles 2017.2: Interdependence
Spending just a few days in the wilderness reminds us of the interdependence of all living things.