"For Our Daughters" is a labor of love for Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history at Calvin University and author of "Jesus and John Wayne," and award-winning filmmaker Carl Byker. The two have been working on a long project about Du Mez' book but worried the voices of abuse survivors might get overshadowed in a longer documentary.
The church is the body of Christ. The body is hiding— broken, bleeding, bruised and scarred. Someone who promised to care and feed her ate her instead.
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.
Knowing that sexual assault is one of the most traumatizing and livelihood-impacting experiences to which a person can fall victim, I thought that doing so to a child should be something inherently unforgivable by God.
On Thursday religion reporters discussed sexual abuse in faith groups at the annual Religion Newswriters Association conference. It's not just happening in Catholic circles.
(RNS) Young men today “want to give their life for something that counts. These men are tired of living in a culture of relativism. They want to say there must be something true, beautiful and good," says the Rev. Mark Latcovich, president of St. Mary Seminary outside Cleveland.