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Brian Clites, associate director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, will discuss “Listening to Survivors as We Address Clergy Sexual Abuse” at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 15 in the Hemmingson Center Auditorium (Room 004) at Gonzaga University.

Clites, who is finishing his first book, “Breaking the Silence,” an ethnography of survivors of priestly sexual abuse, studies religious violence, power, and trauma within the contemporary United States, according to a press release.

“On campuses nationwide, students and faculty continue to grapple with revelations of clergy sexual abuse. How do we make sense of such a complex issue? What does it mean to address a national crisis as a local community,” a press release reads. “Many Catholics have called for increased accountability within the Church, and some have asked what responsibilities laypersons and even non-Catholics have in responding to clergy sexual abuse.”

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In this lecture, Clites will asserts that it is our shared responsibility — not just that of Pope Francis and the bishops — to seek out and uplift the voices of survivors.

The lecture is sponsored by Gonzaga’s religious studies department, Office of Mission and Ministry and the Office of the President and is free and open to the public.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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