Editor's note: This blog introduces "Hell, hope and healing", an NCR four-part series on sexual abuse. Part 1 of the series
has been posted online. Parts 2, 3 and 4 will be published first in our
print edition first and then posted to our website. You will be able to
read the whole series at the feature series page Hell, hope and healing.
Since 2002, we rightly have been bombarded by stories about sexual abuse in the Catholic church. Many Catholics have felt the church has been singled out as a particularly heinous committer of crimes. There is truth to this, but it is also important to contextualize clergy abuse as a part of the wider phenomenon of serious child maltreatment that is still much too prevalent in this country and in others.
http://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/hell-hope-and-healing-four-part-series
Since 2002, we rightly have been bombarded by stories about sexual abuse in the Catholic church. Many Catholics have felt the church has been singled out as a particularly heinous committer of crimes. There is truth to this, but it is also important to contextualize clergy abuse as a part of the wider phenomenon of serious child maltreatment that is still much too prevalent in this country and in others.
http://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/hell-hope-and-healing-four-part-series