Nov 19, 2021 | Division, Healing, Post-Pandemic Church
There is a new and potentially powerful global recognition that child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) is a grave violation of human rights and a major public health issue. These longstanding and worldwide violations of the innocent were worsened by the quarantine...
Oct 28, 2021 | Division, Healing, Post-Pandemic Church
The post-pandemic Church continues to be plagued by silence and denial of longstanding abuse of power and harm to the vulnerable in clergy sexual abuse of children and youth, racism, colonialism and participation in economic and political structures of power and...
Sep 15, 2021 | Division, Healing, Post-Pandemic Church
The 52nd Eucharistic Congress Sept 5-12, 2021in Budapest, Hungary has ended. I read Pope Francis’ homily at the closing Mass yearning for inspiration and encouragement on the renewal of the post-pandemic Eucharist, the essential ritual for our Christian identity and...
Sep 1, 2021 | Healing, Post-Pandemic Church
In these blog postings I continue my life-long journey of diagnosing and treating the pain and suffering of victims of clergy sexual abuse. I have been committed to this ministry since my initial involvement as a pediatrician caring for child victims and then...