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Premature Forgiveness https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/195 Dear Pope Francis: I want to commend you for owning the painful fact of sexual abuse of children by priests as part of your Good Friday comments. Lent is surely the season for such a public acknowledgement. You named the reality of the abuse; you asserted the necessity of stringent sanctions; you acknowledged the profound vulnerability of children. All of this suggests that you are serious about acting to rectify the harm that has been done, to bring justice where there has been injustice, and to bring healing where brokenness remains.No publisherecohenCurrent EventsClergy EthicsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2014-04-24T00:34:05ZBlog Entry"No He Didn't..." https://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/blog/marie-fortune/193 Dear Pope Francis: Did you really say this in a recent interview? In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis acknowledged the “profound” wounds abuse leaves, but then added: “The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution that has moved with transparency and responsibility. No one has done more. And yet the church is the only one that has been attacked.”No publisherecohenCurrent EventsClergy EthicsSexual Abuse by Clergy2014-03-11T16:16:02ZBlog EntryDear Pope: Happy New Year 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 publisherecohenClergy Ethics & Healthy BoundariesCurrent EventsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2016-06-30T21:23:34ZBlog EntryHello Pope Francis 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 publisherecohenCurrent EventsClergy EthicsSexual Abuse by Clergy2013-11-20T00:18:12ZBlog EntryA Trip Downunder 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 publisherecohenCurrent EventsClergy EthicsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2013-10-25T05:14:17ZBlog EntryDear Archbishop: Please Clarify 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 publisherecohenCurrent EventsSexual Abuse by Clergy2013-02-05T22:56:55ZBlog EntryThe Work of Tikkun Olam: Repairing and Restoring the World 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 publisherdmcinnisCurrent EventsJewishChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-12-13T21:57:45ZBlog EntryResponding to Clergy Abuse of Children: Not Rocket Science, Part 2 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 publisherdmcinnisCurrent EventsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-09-22T01:53:12ZBlog EntryResponding to Clergy Abuse of Children: Not Rocket Science, Part I 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 publisherjfredricksenCurrent EventsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-09-18T21:02:21ZBlog EntryNews with Teeth 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 publisherjfredricksenCurrent EventsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-07-26T17:31:28ZBlog EntryHiding in Plain Sight . . . With Help 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 publisherjfredricksenCurrent EventsChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-07-16T23:27:27ZBlog EntryDear Pope: A “Mystery”? 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 publisherjfredricksenCurrent EventsSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-07-02T18:52:22ZBlog EntryFinally, Some Justice Made 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 publisherjfredricksenCurrent EventsClergy EthicsSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-06-27T00:22:47ZBlog EntryDear Pope: Now You've Done It! 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 publisherjfredricksenCurrent EventsSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-05-04T03:01:28ZBlog Entry"Same Old, Same Old. . ." 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 publisherjfredricksenJewishChild AbuseSexual Abuse by Clergy2012-03-23T06:28:22ZBlog Entry