CONNECTICUT
WNPR
By DIANE ORSON
A key group organized in response to clergy sex abuse in the Diocese of Bridgeport has disbanded.
Bridgeport’s local affiliate of Voice of the Faithful brought together lay Catholics 15 years ago in response to an abuse scandal that first rocked the city’s Catholic community in the early 1990s.
The worldwide Voice of the Faithful organization supports survivors of clergy sexual misconduct, most of whom were children at the time of the abuse. It also advocates for more involvement by the laity in shaping change within the Catholic Church.
Former Bridgeport chairperson Jamie Dance said that Voice of the Faithful was first founded after the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston, “…where offending priests were moved from church to church, parish to parish, in order to protect the Diocese from any issues that would surround an offending priest having to come forward.”
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