UNITED STATES
The Worthy Adversary

Posted by Joelle Casteix on February 9, 2014

There have been a number of things about the recent UN committee report on (and the global response to) the Vatican’s role in clergy sex abuse that have given me pause.

The first issue has been the one to which Vatican and global Catholic officials have clung : The report’s inclusion of language about the church’s teachings on homosexuality and abortion.

The church struck back hard, saying that the Vatican was “trampling on religious freedom.”

Even I had some issues with it. When I was asked for a comment by CNN International, I declined, saying that the focus of victims is clergy sexual abuse. And, really, it is. It is not the victims’
movement’s place to comment on other issues, because victims come from all beliefs. But personally, I believed that the committee had…