After just over ten years, the idea of a zero-tolerance approach towards clergy sexual abuse is common currency in Catholic parlance.
[Photo above: Robert Prevost, while bishop of Chiclayo, attending a seminar on the clergy sexual abuse crisis in Peru, 2022. Peruvian Jesuits’ social media.]
A closer look into how zero-tolerance has been used by the Catholic Church dispels any notion of an effective understanding of what it entails.
As several cases, all over the world, prove zero-tolerance remains a catchphrase, a slogan of sorts.
A staple of Catholic Church discourse has been an idea of zero-tolerance towards clergy sexual abuse. As recently as last week, on Friday June 20, Peruvian media were happy to report news of Pope Leo XIV sending a personal letter to Paola Ugaz, one of the brave journalists who dared to risk prison to sound the alarm over the extent of the abuse at the Sodalitium of Christian…
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