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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.
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
* 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
* Richard Sipe: Priests,
Celibacy, and Sexuality
* Sister
Jane McDonald
* Clergy
Abuse page from the Rick A. Ross Institute
* Yahoo
- Catholic Church Abuse Scandal
* Atlanta GA - CNN
(2002-2003)
* 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]; 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 (2002-2005)
* Phoenix AZ - Arizona
Republic (2002-2006)
* 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 (1995-2006) [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
* Los Angeles archdiocesan lawyers' Clergy
Sexual Abuse: The Legal Issues, which responds to media coverage
Vatican Documents and News
* Vatican -
The official Web site, with documents of Pope
Benedict XVI, Pope
John Paul II, Vatican
II, and much else
* Zenit
- "the world seen from Rome," with document
archive and a daily
email service
* Word
from Rome - weekly column by John Allen, Vatican reporter for the
National Catholic Reporter, with an archive
of previous columns
* Catholic World News
Organizations
* abusebynuns
* Call to Action
* Catholic League
for Religious and Civil Rights
* Child Abuse Prevention
Requires Education (CARE)
* Child Victim's
Voice (Delaware statute-of-limitations reform)
* ChurchSecurity.info
(documents and anti-embezzlement measures)
* Coalition
of Catholics & Survivors
* Crusade
against Clergy Abuse
* Dignity
* Fix the
Law
* Foundation to
Abolish Child Sexual Abuse
* Freedom from Religion Foundation
* Justice for
Priests & Deacons
* The Healing Alliance
* A
Matter of Truth
* Mount
Cashel Coverup
* National Federation
of Priest Councils
* The National
Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood
* Opus
Bono Sacerdotii (Work for the Good of the Priesthood)
* Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press and their feature on Secret
Justice
* Rescue
and Recovery International
* Roman Catholic Faithful
(including their exposé
[p. 21] of St. Sebastian's Angels)
* SafeNet (Survivors
Alliance and Franciscan Exchange Network)
* Speak Truth to Power
* Survivor
Connections
* Survivors Network
of Those Abused by Priests (See also the Web sites for the chapters
in Philadelphia, the
Great Plains,
the Midwest, Tennessee,
New Mexico,
Louisiana,
and Mississippi.)
* The Bryan Tullock
Foundation
* United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops and the USCCB's abuse-related Web
page
* Voice of the Faithful
(VOTF), and see also VOTF's links
to Web sites of their local affiliates, including the Bridgeport
CT VOTF affiliate's site, as well as two sites started in response
to VOTF, Faithful
Voice and Your
Catholic Voice
* Voices
of Outrage: Where's the Justice? and the RICO
Campaign for Survivor Justice petition, requesting a U.S. RICO investigation
of the Catholic church
* Worcester Voice
Blogs and Message Boards
Web logs and message boards have been an important forum during
the crisis.
* SNAP
Discussion Board
* City
of Angels by Kay Ebeling
* Clergy Abuse
and the Catholic Church by Patrick J. Wall
* Voice from the Desert
by Frank Douglas
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