The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses write by James T. O'Reilly. This book was released on 2014-09-09. The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sexual abuse of children and teens by rogue priests in the U.S. Catholic Church is a heinous crime, and those who pray for a religious community as its ministers, priests and rabbis should never tolerate those who prey on that community. The legal disputes of recent years have produced many scandalous headlines and fuelled public discussion about the sexual abuse crisis within the clergy, a crisis that has cost the U.S. Catholic Church over $3 billion. In The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses, two eminent experts, James O'Reilly and Margaret Chalmers, draw on the lessons of recent years to discern the interplay between civil damages law and global church-based canon law. In some countries civil and canon law, although autonomous systems of law, both form part of the church's legal duties. In the United States, freedom of religion issues have complicated how the state adjudicates both cases of abuse and who can be held responsible for clerical oversight. This book examines questions of civil and criminal liability, issues of respondeat superior and oversight, issues with statutes of limitations and dealing with allegations that occurred decades ago, and how the Church's internal judicial processes interact or clash with the civil pursuit of these cases.
Letter to a Suffering Church
Letter to a Suffering Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letter to a Suffering Church write by Robert Barron. This book was released on 2019-05-31. Letter to a Suffering Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond Betrayal
Beyond Betrayal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Betrayal write by Patricia Ewick. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Beyond Betrayal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2002, the national spotlight fell on Boston’s archdiocese, where decades of rampant sexual misconduct from priests—and the church’s systematic cover-ups—were exposed by reporters from the Boston Globe. The sordid and tragic stories of abuse and secrecy led many to leave the church outright and others to rekindle their faith and deny any suggestions of institutional wrongdoing. But a number of Catholics vowed to find a middle ground between these two extremes: keeping their faith while simultaneously working to change the church for the better. Beyond Betrayal charts a nationwide identity shift through the story of one chapter of Voice of the Faithful (VOTF), an organization founded in the scandal’s aftermath. VOTF had three goals: helping survivors of abuse; supporting priests who were either innocent or took risky public stands against the wrongdoers; and pursuing a broad set of structural changes in the church. Patricia Ewick and Marc W. Steinberg follow two years in the life of one of the longest-lived and most active chapters of VOTF, whose thwarted early efforts at ecclesiastical reform led them to realize that before they could change the Catholic Church, they had to change themselves. The shaping of their collective identity is at the heart of Beyond Betrayal, an ethnographic portrait of how one group reimagined their place within an institutional order and forged new ideas of faith in the wake of widespread distrust.
Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims
Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims write by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines and mobilized public outrage in January 2002. But much of the commentary that immediately followed was reductionistic, focusing on single "causes" of clerical abuse such as mandatory celibacy, homosexuality, sexual repressiveness or sexual permissiveness, anti-Catholicism, and a decadent secular culture. Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church, a collection of groundbreaking articles edited by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea and Virginia Goldner, eschews such one-size-fits-all theorizing. In its place, the abuse situation is explored in all its troubling complexity, as contributors take into account the experiences, respectively, of the victim/survivor, the abuser/perpetrator, and the bystander (whether family member, professional/clergy, or the community at large). Setting polemics to the side, Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims provides a sober and sobering analysis of the interlacing historical, doctrinal, and psychological issues that came together in the sexual abuse scandal. It is mandatory reading for all who seek thoughtful, informed commentary on a crisis long in the making and yet to be resolved.
The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses
The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses write by James T. O'Reilly. This book was released on 2014. The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis and the Legal Responses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Legal disputes over worldwide, including the U.S., sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, and over efforts by Roman Catholic bishops to conceal clerical misconduct, have produced many headlines and public discussion. However, the precise legal issues involved remain a mystery to most observers. In this study, James O'Reilly and Margaret Chalmers examine the role of canon law in these cases and the interplay between the global church-based law and the laws of individual jurisdictions where criminal actions and lawsuits are brought.
