Other Web Sites about the Catholic
Abuse Crisis
On this page we provide links to Web sites that offer information, commentary,
and assistance regarding the crisis. The sites represent a range of positions
and opinion, and their presence on this list should not be construed as
an endorsement by BishopAccountability.org. We endorse no particular analysis
of the root causes of the crisis, and we advocate no particular remedies.
Nor do we recommend the services of any organization or business listed
below. Please email us with suggestions for adding to this list of links.
Media
and Academic Web Sources on the Crisis
Including Newspaper Features with Links to Many Stories
* The
Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - David M. Cheney's very useful resource
providing "current and historical information about the bishops and
dioceses" of the Catholic church
* Abuse
Tracker (a daily digest of links to media coverage of clergy
abuse, financial accountability, and related issues)
* Behind
the Pine Curtain (successor site to the Abuse Disclosure Project,
on abuse at St. John's in Collegeville)
* Catholic
World Report - "Scandal Coverage" back to 1993
* The Church in the
21st Century (Boston College)
* Google
News on Catholic Abuse Crisis
* Father Lasch
* First
Things (Google search)
* National
Catholic Reporter
* National
Public Radio
* New Oxford Review and its dossiers on the Priest
Sex Abuse Scandal and "The
Lavender Mafia Files"
* Poster Boy Priest (journal site by accused priest Thaddeus J. Kardas, now deceased)
* Renegade Catholic,
main site of Jay Nelson, former webmaster of The Linkup and editor of
the Missing Link, with links to his other projects
* Pepe Rodriquez
* Richard Sipe: Priests,
Celibacy, and Sexuality
* Sister
Jane McDonald
* Clergy
Abuse page from the Rick A. Ross Institute
* Baltimore MD - Baltimore
Sun (2002-2006)
* Boston MA - Boston
Globe (2002-2004); Boston
Phoenix (2001-2003)
* Cincinnati OH - Cincinnati
Enquirer (2002-2003)
* Cleveland OH - Plain
Dealer (2002-2004)
* Joliet IL - Herald
News (2002)
* Los Angeles - Los
Angeles Lay Catholic Mission (Google search 1998-2006); Ron
Russell in New Times
* Milwaukee WI - Milwaukee
Sentinel (2002-2005)
* New York NY - BeliefNet (2002-2004)
* Niagara Falls NY - LifeSite (2002-2005)
* Philadelphia PA - Philadelphia
Inquirer (mostly 2005)
* Portland OR - Oregonian (1999-2004)
* St. Louis MO - St.
Louis Post-Dispatch (2002-2004)
* San Francisco CA - Catholic
World Report (1993-2002)
* San Francisco CA - San Francisco Chronicle (1995-2010) (site search)
* Spokane WA - Spokesman
Review (2002-2008)
* Tampa Bay FL - Tampa
Bay Coalition (2002)
* Washington DC - Catholic
News Service (2004)
* Washington DC - PBS
NewsHour (2002-2004)
* Boston archdiocese's For
the Record feature, which responded to media coverage in 2003
Vatican Documents
and News
* Vatican -
The official Web site, with a special page, Abuse
of Minors: The Church's Response, documents of Pope
Benedict XVI, Pope
John Paul II, Vatican
II, and much else
* Zenit - "the world seen from Rome," with document
archive
* All
Things Catholic - weekly column by John Allen, Vatican reporter for
the National Catholic Reporter, with an archive of previous columns
* Catholic World News
Organizations
and Other Sources of Information and Analysis
* Jeff Anderson
& Associates (with links to documents)
* L'Association des victimes de prêtres et autres religieux (an initiative of Mme France Bédard, based in Québec)
*
Plattform Betroffener kirchlicher Gewalt (Platform of People Affected by Church Violence, based in Vienna)
* Bergen Catholic High School Abuse
* Briscoe
Boys
* Call to Action
* Catholic League
for Religious and Civil Rights
* Center for Constitutional Rights and their ICC
filing
* Child Abuse Prevention
Requires Education (CARE)
* Child Victim's
Voice (Delaware statute-of-limitations reform)
* ChurchSecurity.info (documents and anti-embezzlement measures)
* Crusade
against Clergy Abuse
* Dignity
* Fix the
Law
* Foundation to
Abolish Child Sexual Abuse
* FrancescoZanardi.org (site of Italian survivor activist Zanardi)
* Freedom from Religion Foundation
* Marci Hamilton - Publications
* Herman, Mermelstein
& Horowitz (includes blog and videos)
* The Innocence
Mission
* Justice for
Magdalenes
* Justice for
Priests & Deacons
* KLOKK Foundation (Holland, with links to affiliated organizations)
* William F. McMurry
& Associates (with feature on the Catholic
cases and links to news reports)
* NAPAC (National Association for People Abused in Childhood - Great Britain)
* NAPSAC (National Association
to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children)
* National Federation
of Priest Councils
* The National
Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood
* One
in Four
* Opus Bono
Sacerdotii (Work for the Good of the Priesthood)
* ReGAIN (Religious Groups Awareness International Network - on Marcial Maciel and the Legion of Christ)
* Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press and their feature on Secret
Justice
* Roman Catholic Faithful (including their exposé [p. 21] of St. Sebastian's Angels)
* SafeNet (Survivors
Alliance and Franciscan Exchange Network)
* Saving Childhood
Ryan (eight Irish organisations working on behalf of children and
survivors of abuse on the first anniversary of the Ryan report)
* SOL-Reform.com
* Speak Truth to Power
* Survivor Connections
* Survivors Network
of Those Abused by Priests (See also the Web sites for the chapters
in Minnesota,
the Midwest, and Tennessee)
* Sylvia's
Site and The Inquiry by Sylvia MacEachern (blogging the Cornwall sex abuse inquiry and
the emerging sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church)
* United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops and the USCCB's abuse-related Web
page (see also the USCCB's convenient lists of bishops
and dioceses with links to diocesan websites)
* Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), and see also VOTF's links to websites of local affiliates, including Atlanta
GA with their news
archive, Bridgeport
CT, Long Island NY, Twin Cities MN,
and Winchester MA,
as well as two sites started in response to VOTF, Faithful
Voice and Your
Catholic Voice
* VOTF Ireland
* Werkgroep Mensenrechten in de Kerk (Working Group on Human Rights in the Church, a Belgian organization of Rik Devillé and colleagues)
Abuse in Other Religious Institutions
* The Awareness
Center (Jewish Community)
* Our Stories Untold (Mennonites)
* Pokrov (Orthodox Churches)
* silentlambs (Jehovah's
Witnesses)
Blogs and Message Boards
Web logs and message boards have been an important forum during
the crisis.
* 37 Year Wait (blog of James Moran, who is petitioning for release of the uncensored Murphy report chapter about Fr Patrick McCabe)
* Andrew
Madden's Blog
* Bock the Robber (Co Limerick, Ireland)
* City of Angels by Kay Ebeling
* Clergy Abuse
and the Catholic Church by Patrick J. Wall
* The God Squad,
by Paddy Doyle
* Off My Knees,
by Michael Baumann
* SNAP
Discussion Board
* Sylvia's
Site, by Sylvia MacEachern (blogging the Cornwall sex abuse inquiry and
the emerging sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church)
* The Inquiry, by
Sylvia MacEachern (about the Cornwall inquiry)
* These Stone Walls:
Musings from Prison of a Priest Falsely Accused (Rev. Gordon MacRae's
blog)
* Victims of Silence
* Voice from the Desert by Frank Douglas
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