Child abuse and its different forms in India: An analysis
Introduction Child abuse is harm to another person, whether an adult or a child, or neglect of a child. In all racial, national, and…
Child Abuse In Catholic Church
Dim Halos: Suppressing the Cult of Pope John Paul II
As chief conductor of the saint factory, Pope John Paul II was always going to be, in time, canonised. Almost 500 saints were created under his watch. The previous 600…
The Case that Dare Not Speak Its Name: The Conviction of Cardinal Pell
“Freedom of the press in the world will cease to exist if a judge in one country is allowed to bar publication of information anywhere in the world.” Martin…
Cultures of Death: Pope Francis, Apology and Child Abuse
It was long overdue, but Pope Francis’s letter of condemnation and apology regarding the abuse of children by Catholic priests did sent a few ripples of comfort and reckoning. He…
The Catholic Church in Resistance: Priests, Child Abuse, and Breaking the Seal of the Confessional
The tradition is represented as noble, the confiding link between confessor and penitent, a bridge never to be broken, even under pain of death. Taken that way, the confessional is…
Cover Ups and Confessions: Pope Francis and Child Abuse
It is the season for exposures and exposes, and the Catholic Church has been making regular ripples of the wrong and undeniably crude sort. Globally, the church is finding itself…
Breaking The Seal: Child Abuse And The Confessional
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has gotten on with the gruesome task of making 85…
The Cardinal, The Church And Legal Theatre
“The world is watching.” Cathy Kezelman, Blue Knot Foundation president, The Washington Post, Jul 25, 2017 The show on Wednesday was grim, busy, crowded. Cardinal George Pell, the highest…
A Question of Accountability: Cardinal Pell, The Vatican And Child Abuse
The Catholic Church, much in the manner of a modern corporation, is a sprawling edifice of operations and functions. To hold part of it accountable for abuses – against human,…
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