https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 31 to 45. https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/189 I was encouraged in early December by your announcement that you are convening a Vatican Commission on Child Sexual Abuse to help you address the needs of victims and the structural changes that must take place in order to avoid repeating the past. This seemed like an appropriate Advent effort coinciding with the new church year and the nativity of Jesus. While this planned Vatican Commission falls somewhat short of the call by Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, retired Bishop from Sydney, Australia, for a Vatican Council to address the child abuse tragedy (For Christ’s Sake: End Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church...for Good), it is a step in the right direction. No publisher ecohen Clergy Ethics & Healthy Boundaries Current Events Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2016-06-30T21:23:34Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/185 Dear New Pope: I thought I would give you a few months to settle in before I wrote to you. I have carried on a (one way) correspondence with your predecessors so I thought I should continue the tradition and be in touch with you. I want to commend you for what appears to be your actual concern for the people of God whom you lead. I also want to commend you for reaching out to your people and inquiring of their experiences and opinions about urgent issues in their lives, particularly about their experiences in families. The information which you gather will be critical to your discernment of the path ahead for your church. No publisher ecohen Current Events Clergy Ethics Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2013-11-20T00:18:12Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/184 You may have noticed that the Blog has been quiet for the past few weeks. That is because I just returned from a trip to Australia where I was the guest of Safe Church Ministries. I did training for them in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. I also keynoted their conference in Sydney, “Safe As Churches?” My first visit to Australia was around 15 years ago when I worked with Uniting Church leaders and others to begin to address clergy misconduct and abuse issues. Then 5 years later, I spoke at a national ecumenical conference during which I began to see the early efforts across denominations to put policy and procedures in place to address complaints of clergy misconduct. No publisher ecohen Current Events Clergy Ethics Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2013-10-25T05:14:17Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/161 Dear Archbishop Gomez: Kudos for doing something. In response to the release of the personnel files on clergy sexual abusers in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, you actually did something about Cardinal Roger Mahoney and Bishop Thomas Curry who oversaw the years of silence, cover-up and non-response to the reports of sexual abuse of children by priests, though of course I wish you had done it earlier. No publisher ecohen Current Events Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2013-02-05T22:56:55Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/156 There are two important stories this week within the Orthodox Jewish community in the U.S. The first is the conviction of Nechemya Weberman, a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn, for sexual abuse of a child who had the courage to come forward and report him. No publisher dmcinnis Current Events Jewish Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-12-13T21:57:45Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/150 Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn has been convicted of failure to report suspected child abuse; he is the first Bishop to be held accountable for shielding a pedophile priest. He received no jail time or fine; rather he was sentenced to two years of court-supervised probation. No publisher dmcinnis Current Events Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-09-22T01:53:12Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/149 What does a pastor do when he discovers that a volunteer youth minister in his church is “sexting” a 15 year old girl in the youth group? As reported in the news, “The West Seattle church's youth pastor went to police immediately after learning of the allegations against Davis, resulting in the 26-year-old’s arrest. Davis was also dismissed from his volunteer position.” No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-09-18T21:02:21Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/143 This week’s news that the Paterno statue has been removed from the Penn State campus, the NCAA heavily penalized Penn State with both a fine of $60 million and denied their wins of the football team as well as its future bowl game participation was welcome news. No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-07-26T17:31:28Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/142 The Penn State report and the conviction of Jerry Sandusky provide the irrefutable evidence that he was a sexual predator on the loose for over twenty years and there were numerous people with full knowledge of his crimes who could have stopped him. How does this happen? No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-07-16T23:27:27Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/140 I’m puzzled. In a recent talk in Ireland about the sexual abuse of children by priests, you described the situation as a “mystery” when you addressed the Eucharistic Congress. No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-07-02T18:52:22Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/139 Good news is hard to come by in the work to address sexual and domestic violence. But last week was a pretty good week. No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Clergy Ethics Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-06-27T00:22:47Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/135 In going after the nuns in the U.S., you have struck a rock. You are attacking the church’s representatives who are the face of the church where it matters most--- in the hospitals, the schools, the parishes... No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-05-04T03:01:28Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/130 We have become almost numb to the steady stream of disclosures of child sexual abuse: the Roman Catholic experiences continue even with serious efforts to stem the tide, the Penn State tragedy and subsequent campus situations. So in some ways this most recent release of a new documentary, “Standing Silent,” could easily be overlooked. No publisher jfredricksen Jewish Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-03-23T06:28:22Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/128 The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, was recently interviewed on 60 Minutes, discussing his efforts since becoming Archbishop to address the sexual abuse of children by priests. No publisher jfredricksen Current Events Clergy Ethics Child Abuse Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2012-03-13T21:39:58Z Blog Entry https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/news/a-positive-for-the-church Reykjavik, Iceland - Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune's interview with the press following her meeting with the Bishop of the Lutheran Church No publisher dsorin Clergy Ethics Christian Sexual Abuse by Clergy 2011-11-02T19:29:20Z News Item