Kenny looks for lessons in sex abuse scandal

CANADA
The Chronicle-Herald

As a nun and a pediatrician, Sister Nuala Kenny devoted much of her professional life to helping people feel better.

Her new book, Healing the Church, aims to apply balm to the Catholic Church. Subtitled Diagnosing and Treating the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis, the book is aimed at a particular audience.

“Ordinary lay people,” Kenny, semi-retired, said from the Halifax convent where she lives with three other sisters.

“It’s an attempt to find some way to get people to begin talking about what are the lessons that we have learned from this crisis, about who we are as a church, with specific attention to how we are when we relate as clergy and laity.”

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