The crimes of child
sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and in other institutions, have
generated a wide literature. It encompasses the experience of victims,
the institutional causes of clerical abuse and the steps needed to do
justice to its victims and to ensure it does not happen again.
Other writing offers help to victims to deal with their experience. An impressive example of this last category points to a wider challenge to our society. Jane Dowling's Child Arise! The Courage to Stand. A spiritual handbook for survivors of sexual abuse — which last month was named the Australian Christian Book of the Year — is addressed to Christians who have suffered abuse within the Church and whose faith is still central to them. Many, of course, have understandably abandoned it.
http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=49813#.V8ZV0DU1eUk
Other writing offers help to victims to deal with their experience. An impressive example of this last category points to a wider challenge to our society. Jane Dowling's Child Arise! The Courage to Stand. A spiritual handbook for survivors of sexual abuse — which last month was named the Australian Christian Book of the Year — is addressed to Christians who have suffered abuse within the Church and whose faith is still central to them. Many, of course, have understandably abandoned it.
http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=49813#.V8ZV0DU1eUk