Abuse survivors

Abuse survivor believes now is a great evangelical moment for church
- Apr 24, 2021
Teresa Pitt Green, who as a child was sexually abused by Catholic priests, said she is convinced “there’s a lot more hope than people dare to feel.”

By Jay Nies
German survivors accuse Cardinal Woelki of ‘abuse of abuse victims’
- Nov 19, 2020
The two abuse survivors who resigned as spokesmen of the victims’ advisory board in the Cologne Archdiocese have accused Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of a “renewed abuse of abuse victims.”

By Catholic News Service
Victims ‘welcome’ McCarrick report, but say accountability needed
- Nov 12, 2020
As the dust begins to settle on the report on the rise to power of defrocked ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, survivors are lauded by many as the impetus of the 460-page Vatican document. Had victim’s not come forward, one of the Church’s most notorious predators might still be in the Vatican’s most exclusive club.

By Inés San Martín

Explaining the Vatican’s lingering ambivalence on “zero tolerance”
- May 31, 2020
To this day, a central plank in the indictment of many abuse survivors and their advocates is that the Vatican has not imposed a universal “zero tolerance” policy everywhere in the world.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Survivors irritated: IDs of most Canadian bishops’ protection committee members secret
- Mar 10, 2020
The Canadian bishops’ Standing Committee for the Responsible Ministry and Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Persons met for the first time in January, but the fact that the identities of the majority of its members is kept secret irritates victims, who see a lack of transparency.

By Francois Gloutnay
One year after global abuse summit, reaction mixed on progress made
- Feb 22, 2020
Exactly one year after Pope Francis’s historic Feb. 21-24 abuse summit, attended by the presidents of all episcopal conferences worldwide, both survivors and experts muse on what the institution has accomplished, and what has yet to be done.

By Elise Ann Allen
On summit anniversary, what we still don’t know about clerical abuse
- Feb 21, 2020
What’s striking one year after Pope Francis’s historic clerical sex abuse summit is how much still isn’t understood.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Church damaged by abuse, ‘but more damage done to people,’ says abuse expert
- Feb 9, 2020
Almost 200 people filled the Driscoll Hall Auditorium on Villanova University’s campus Jan. 29 looking to deepen their understanding about global perspectives on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

By Gia Myers