Showing posts with label sexual abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual abuse. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Report on Jean Vanier: Vanier Founded L'Arche "Primarily as a Cover for a Secretive Religious Sect with Exploitative 'Mystical-Sexual' Beliefs and Practices"

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Photo of Jean Vanier by Kotukaran, at Wikimedia Commons On 30 January, a study commission convoked by L'Arche International to look into...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Telling Truth about Benedict's Legacy re: Clerical Sexual Abuse of Minors, and Commentary on Cardinal Pell's Legacy re: Abuse

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Adam Horowitz offers one of the best pieces of commentary  I've seen on how far too many Catholic journalists and academics have chosen ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Recent Religion + Politics Commentary: "Pro-Life" Movement, Christian Nationalism, Southern Baptists and United Methodists, Leonard Leo and New USCCB President

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Here are some valuable articles I've read in the past week or two about religion and politics and their intersection:
Saturday, November 12, 2022

More Commentary from French Catholics about Abuse Story in French Church: "What we are discovering today – with horror – is a twisted system"

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Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, photo by Tom S., Wikimedia Commons As a follow-up to my two previous postings ( here and here ) about the shoc...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Weekly News Roundup by Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global: "What kind of Christian posts a meme on social media that mocks Paul Pelosi after he was violently attacked?"

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Hammer photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Malene Thyssen Each Friday, Mark Wingfield, editor of Baptist News Global , sends a Friday ro...
Monday, November 30, 2020

The Case Died with Her: Documentary about Emilie Morris of St. Louis and Her Claim of Abuse Against Her High-School Coach

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For those concerned about sexual abuse and exploitation of minors by adult authority figures, and about the difficulties that how those blow...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Jeff Altaras, "Evil Thrives When Good People Remain Silent": Discussion of Sexual Abuse in the Mennonite Context

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I'm pleased to have the opportunity to share with Bilgrimage readers a fine statement by Jeff Altaras, commenting on the response of som...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

David Clohessy of SNAP Speaking Outside Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, Alabama, June 2019: How to Effect Real Change with Churches and Abuse

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I'd like to share with readers a presentation that David Clohessy of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) made in Jun...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

German Catholic Bishops on Dismal Failure of Predecessors in Nazi Period; Anne Barrett Doyle on Anniversary of Vos Estis Lux Mundi

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Writing in The Tablet  yesterday, Christa Pongratz-Lippit reports on an in-depth study the German Catholic bishops recently commissi...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Ruth Krall, "A Sin or a Crime?"

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David Stoltzfus Smucker (age 75) wheeled into court in Lancaster, PA,  Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 24 Jan. 2020 I'm happy to share tod...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Ruth Krall, A Brief Afterword to "Recapitulation: Affinity Sexual Violence in a Religious Voice"

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Healthcare Workers in Ebola Protective Gear (i) Ruth Krall has generously prepared a brief afterword to her six-part series of essays...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (2)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), " Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple " The essay below is the second installm...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (1)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple" (i) My house shall be called a house o...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Ruth Krall, Looking Slant: Oppressive Ideologies and Belief Systems

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Ebola: Transporting a Sick Child to a Care Facility (1) The essay by Ruth Krall that follows below is the fourth in a series of essays...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach (Part 2)

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Transferring an Ebola Patient for Transport to a Care Facility   Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach Rut...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Abuse Whistleblower Rachael Denhollander on Why Survivors Know How Extensive Abuse Is in Southern Baptist Churches

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With nearly 15 million members, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Now it's ...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Ruth Krall, Prolegomena: An Act of Re-Thinking (Part 2)

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This posting is a continuation of an essay by Ruth Krall, the first part of which I posted several days ago . As that previous postin...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Ruth Krall, Prolegomena: An Act of Re-Thinking

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Ebola Virus Isolation Unit — A Visual Metaphor to Ponder (i) I'm very pleased to be able to share once again an outstanding essay...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Ruth Krall, "In a Roman Catholic Voice: Clergy and Religious Leader Sexual Abuse of the Laity — A Study Bibliography of Resources" (2)

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As I stated yesterday in introducing this two-part posting in which Ruth Krall offers us a valuable new resource for studying sexua...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Ruth Krall, "In a Roman Catholic Voice: Clergy and Religious Leader Sexual Abuse of the Laity — A Study Bibliography of Resources"

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L'Osservatore Romano/AP Pool Photo, BXVI's 65th anniversary of ordination, 28 June 2016 Pope Francis (i) with Pope Emeritus Benedi...