NEW YORK (NY)
National Catholic Reporter
November 8, 2018
by Peter Feuerherd
What now?
Toward the end of a year marked by revelations about worldwide sex abuse, from Chile, Australia, Germany, Guam, as well as Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the question of how the church should emerge from crisis was the topic in two seminars at East Coast Jesuit universities within a week of each other.
At Fordham University here, as well as Georgetown University in Washington, experts in church life and psychology offered possible pathways out, after describing the depths of the issues which confront the church.
“We have lost trust,” Justice Anne Burke of the Illinois Supreme Court and former chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Review Board, told the Georgetown gathering Oct. 24. “There is no accountability,” she said about the bishops, noting that the 2002 Dallas Charter, which created a zero-tolerance policy for priest sex abusers, never applied to them.
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