Pope Offers Apology for Sex Abuse Scandal
Confronting a sex abuse scandal spreading across Europe, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday apologized directly and personally to victims and their families in Ireland, expressing “shame and remorse” and saying “your trust had been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.”
His message, in a long-awaited, eight-page pastoral letter to [...]
By Megan Twohey | Tribune reporter
April 20, 2009
In an unprecedented move in the Chicago area, more than a dozen churches on the city’s West Side delivered coordinated sermons on sexual violence Sunday, saying it was time for a widespread but often hidden problem to be addressed from the pulpit.
At Greater St. John Bible Church [...]
The book “Don’t Say a Word about This” exists because it seems no one is ready to take the banner and become the poster person for sexual abuse and other related sexual issues. It seems that no one is willing to put their life on the line for issues that polarize and paralyzed our society.
When [...]
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