"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 Tuesday a sexual abuse victim filed a lawsuit against the Catholic dioceses of Yakima and Spokane.
The lawsuit filed in Spokane County Superior Court claims that beginning in 1961, the Rev. Joseph Sondergeld sexually abused the victim, then 9 years old, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Roslyn.