Posted on 04/18/2021 2:56:03 PM PDT by Marchmain
CLEVELAND — A trio of survivors of sexual abuse are inviting the Catholic Church — from parishioners in the pews to the bishops who lead dioceses — to join them on their journey toward healing and reconciliation.
The invitation from Mike Hoffman, who chairs the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Hope and Healing Committee, Mark Williams, a special adviser to Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and a deacon in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois who asked to remain anonymous is meant to help the wider church heal as well.
And that means hearing their stories and those of other sexual abuse victims-survivors, they told Catholic News Service in mid-April, which is Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
It’s their belief that by hearing those stories, Catholics will be touched and begin to realize that churchwide healing from the wounds of abuse is a long process, as their own yearslong recovery attests.
They also believe that actions to prevent future abuse must encompass more than the “checklist” of requirements outlined in the U.S. bishops’ 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”
“Nobody knows what a survivor needs than a survivor him(self) or herself,” said Hoffman, who was abused by a priest as a 12-year-old at his family’s parish.
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Can’t really say. But the church is still hiding from the past.
seems fair, whos the leader?
The church is unwilling to be held accountable, so it won’t help.
From what I understand in psychology, there is no healing to be had from repeating, over and over, your trauma. All one can really do is not pass it onto the children. Let them live your trauma free life and let them become adults who had good childhoods. That’s what one can do when coming from an abused background.
Apparently they abused a lot of Alaskan children. Grown old men cry when they talk about the abuse.
It is terrible. Vatican II was an evil decision.
Tell your story to Cardinal TOBIN??? Uh, no. That very name tells you this is yet another CYA operation from bishops trying to protect what’s left of their assets.
+1
I don’t even know what this means. Sound like a shakedown.
It’s what society does now, create a victim class and let them dominate the decisions.
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