Responses to Clergy Sexual Abuse

TEDx talk: Separating Fact and Fiction About Clergy Sexual Abuse

posted July 11, 2019
Thomas G. Plante, Ph. D., ABPP, faculty member at Stanford and Santa Clara University and member of Catholic Community at Stanford, discusses the issues in a TEDx talk.

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Letter to bishops from members of Catholic Community at Stanford

posted February 24, 2019
Letter sent (dated February 5, 2019) to Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, President of USCCB, and fellow bishops

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Diocese of San Jose Statement on the Dismissal from the Clerical State (Laicization) of Theodore McCarrick

www.dsj.org

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Diocese of San Jose Disclosure of Names of Clergy

www.dsj.org - October 18, 2018
Statement of Bishop McGrath and list of names of clergy with credible allegations of sexual abuse of children

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Two articles by Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University

Synods Aren’t Just For Bishops (Commonweal)
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/synods-aren%E2%80%99t-just-bishops

The Disunited States (The Tablet—registration at thetablet.co.uk required)
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/14490/the-disunited-states

 

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

(www.scu.edu/ethics)
Focus Areas > Religion and Ethics > Resources > Clergy Sexual Abuse

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Bishop Patrick J. McGrath Announces Diocesan Actions to Address Clergy Abuse

Diocese of San Jose (www.dsj.org) - September 13, 2018

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