Clerical Sexual Abuse by Jo-Renee Formicola

Muller and Charles Kenney show in this urgent call to action, history is on the side of those who would stand up and be heard. Now, with the growing success of Voice of the Faithful, there is finally a legitimate forum for the laity. For too long, average Catholics have been disenfranchised. The group came to realize that the underlying cause of the cover-ups and the failure of the church to adopt many needed changes is the abuse by some in the hierarchy of the excessive power they hold. It was at this low point that a fiercely committed group of Catholics emphatically said, Enough! This book tells their inspiring story, the story of Voice of the Faithful, a grassroots organization formed to give the laity a voice in making their church a more effective spiritual and social force. Then when the scandal hit, even true believers were pitched into an all-out crisis of faith. With a devout but aging congregation giving way to a generation of so-called lapsed Catholics, the spiritual vitality and significance of the church had seemed, in the context of modern American society, to be ebbing away. Book excerpt: A Defining Moment in the Life of the Church Even before the terrible revelations of sexual misconduct and the cover-up that allowed such atrocities to continue happening, the Catholic Church was in trouble.

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Clerical Sexual Abuse by Jo-Renee Formicola