Special Issue Editor's Letter: Religion & Sex Abuse Within and Beyond the Catholic Church
If we are going to understand this pervasive problem and change our culture, we must address this issue directly.
The Problem with Spotlights: Rethinking Our Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse
Americans repeatedly ask new waves of Catholic survivors to come forward, only to abandon them.
Priests That Moved: Catholicism, Colonized Peoples, and Sex Abuse in the U.S. Southwest
How should we understand the higher rates of clergy sexual abuse in dioceses with large Native American populations?
Black Catholics, Racism, and the Sex Abuse Crisis: A Personal Reflection
Discussions of the Catholic sex abuse crisis that do not consider race are incomplete.
On Forgiveness, Clergy Abuse, and the Need for New Understandings
What should survivors do when the Church asks them for forgiveness?
American Catholic Studies: Forum on Catholic Sex Abuse and the Study of Religion
What do scholars of Catholicism have to say about the abuse crisis?
A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination
Protestant denominations also have structural abuse problems--and that isn't new.
Jews, Sex Positivity, and Abuse
Stories of Judaism’s sex positivity can get in the way of seeing abuse within Jewish communities.
The Guru-Disciple Relationship and the Complications of Consent
Is a devotee who promised to serve a guru able to assert her defiance or her consent?