Overview

By carefully listening to the words and wisdom of survivors, this volume focuses on ways forward in the work of creating an atmosphere of accountability, healing, and trust in today’s church.   In March of 2022, practitioners of psychology, law, and theology, gathered at the University of Notre Dame for a major conference to explore practical strategies to increase accountability, promote healing, and rebuild trust in the life of the Catholic Church in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The essays in this volume share the fruits of those days spent reflecting on recent research on these challenging issues. The result is a hopeful resource in service to survivors and to those who minister with them through listening, giving voice, and bearing witness to the wounded body of Christ.   The challenges of addressing the range of problems caused by the abuse crisis are great, affecting the work of ministry in profound ways. From the training of future ministers—lay and ordained—to the exercise of the church’s various ministries in parishes, education and direct service, the abuse crisis calls out for a response to the questions posed by abuse survivors and those who accompany and hope to serve them. Organized around three themes—accountability, healing, and trust—the contributors to this volume probe the deepest understanding of the church’s mission and name the most significant divisions in the response to the sexual abuse crisis. By carefully listening to the words and wisdom of survivors, this volume focuses on ways forward and treats clergy, laypeople, scholars, and ministers as partners in the work of creating an atmosphere of accountability, healing, and trust in the post-abuse-revelation church.      Contributors include: Melanie Susan Barrett — Kimberly Hope Belcher — Jennifer Beste — Julia Canonico — Peter Capretto David A. Clairmont — Tristan Cooley — Anselma Dolcich-Ashley — Sarah Gallagher — Kevin Grove, CSC Gerard J. McGlone, SJ — Marcus Mescher — Bruce Morrill, SJ — Stacey Noem — Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC Hilary Jerome Scarsella — Kenneth W. Schmidt — Eric T. Styles — Patrick J. Wall — J.J. Wright

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Author:   Kimberly Hope Belcher ,  David A. Clairmont
Publisher:   Liturgical Press
Imprint:   Liturgical Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9780814688977

ISBN 10:   0814688977
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   03 January 2025
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface   ix        Kimberly Hope Belcher and David A. Clairmont Introduction: Listening, Witnessing, and Re-forming in Church   xiii        Kimberly Hope Belcher and David A. Clairmont PART ONE Accountability—Listening to the Words of Survivors 1  Toward Accountability, Trust, and Healing: It’s the System!   3        Gerard J. McGlone, SJ 2  Accountability, Healing, and Trust: Developing a Just Response to Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse   15        Jennifer Beste 3  Native American Catholic Boarding Schools: Restorative Justice and the Obligation of the Church   25        Sarah Gallagher  4  A Survivor-Centered Take on the State of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Today   39        Hilary Jerome Scarsella 5  Walking with Survivors: What Are We to Do with This Pain?   51        Marcus Mescher PART TWO Healing—Witnessing to the Lives of Survivors 6  The Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Synodal Church: Insights from the Sixth Commandment   65        Anselma Dolcich-Ashley 7  Sacramental Clericalism: Enabler of Abuse, Obstacle to Healing   75        Bruce T. Morrill, SJ 8  Take Away the Stone: Sacramental Life and the Challenges of Healing Sexual Abuse   87        Kimberly Hope Belcher 9  Lessons from Litigation for Ministry in the Church   105        Patrick J. Wall 10  Wounded Healers Who Proclaim the Word: Ministry and Preaching amid Unresolved Trauma   113        Kenneth W. Schmidt  PART THREE Trust—Re-forming the Body of Christ 11  Accountability, Healing, and Trust: Formation for Ministry   129        Stacey Noem 12  On Ministry: Professionalization, Authority, and the Whole Christ   139        Kevin G. Grove, CSC 13  Shifting the Overton Window on Spiritual Care for Sexual Violence   147        Peter Capretto 14  Speaking and Enacting the Truth: Language and Virtue in Ecclesial Formation   159        Melanie Susan Barrett 15  Safety and Mercy: Challenges and Opportunities for the Education of Young People during the Abuse Crisis   167        David A. Clairmont 16  Composing The Passion: Empowering Young People to Be Ministerial Protagonists through Creativity in the Face of Suffering, Distrust, and Despair   179        Tristan Cooley and J. J. Wright  Appendixes Liturgical Resources to Promote Accountability, Healing, and Trust “I Will Put My Spirit Within You”: A Visio Divina Liturgy for Accountability and Healing   191        Kimberly Hope Belcher, Julia Canonico, and Eric T. Styles Prayer in the Morning/Evening   195        Kimberly Hope Belcher, Julia Canonico, and Eric T. Styles Litany of Prayer: From Anguish, Toward Justice   202        Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC Contributors   203

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“We are now more than two decades out from the ground-breaking and world-changing reporting by the “Spotlight” team at the Boston Globe that brought the crisis of clergy sexual abuse and its insidious coverup by church leaders to light. While much has been done during these decades to address the harm caused, still much more is needed. This volume brings together a wide range of expertise and insight to help in this effort, especially as it relates to ministry in the church today. I recommend this book to everyone engaged in pastoral ministry in the Catholic church today, especially those entrusted with leadership of dioceses, religious congregations, and parishes. It should also be required reading in seminaries and graduate schools of theology and ministry!” Daniel P. Horan, Professor of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Theology, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana

“We are now more than two decades out from the ground-breaking and world-changing reporting by the “Spotlight” team at the Boston Globe that brought the crisis of clergy sexual abuse and its insidious coverup by church leaders to light. While much has been done during these decades to address the harm caused, still much more is needed. This volume brings together a wide range of expertise and insight to help in this effort, especially as it relates to ministry in the church today. I recommend this book to everyone engaged in pastoral ministry in the Catholic church today, especially those entrusted with leadership of dioceses, religious congregations, and parishes. It should also be required reading in seminaries and graduate schools of theology and ministry.” Daniel P. Horan, Professor of Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Theology, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana “If you wonder what the clergy sexual abuse crisis is all about, let this book explain it to you. Although you can never fully understand sexual abuse unless you have lived it, the loss is so profound that the very essence, identity, spirituality, and relational ability is forever changed in the victim and will never be the same as it was before the abuse took place. Within these pages is an insightful overview of this crisis with an emphasis on the effect it has had on the people of God—parish, faith, religious communities, the priesthood and the entire faithful. Hopefully, these pages will give you a deeper look than you have had, and you will be changed, for the better, knowing what you can do to help transform our Church into a haven of justice and peace.” Paula Kaempffer, Coordinator for Restorative Practices and Survivor Support, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ""As there can be no authentic celebration of resurrection hope that bypasses the crucifixion, the Catholic church, in all of its expressions, cannot be a source of safety and healing by bypassing the grim reality of sexual abuse within the church. Accountability, Healing, and Trust does engender hope, doing so through respect for the needs of survivors, honest confrontation with the sinfulness and failure that blight many aspects of the ecclesial community, and a commitment to the conversion that the church’s prayer and worship engender. This is a challenging book, but a necessary one."" Richard Lennan, Professor of Systematic Theology, Boston College—Clough School of Theology and Ministry ""This collection of essays makes common cause with numerous recent initiatives stemming from Catholic universities and theologians across the globe, all making constructive response to the challenges posed by the phenomena of clergy sexual abuse. Increasingly, Catholic universities are where the church is doing its thinking on this issue. This volume will benefit ground force actors responsible for safeguarding in dioceses, schools, parishes, and seminaries, and it will contribute helpful resources to church leadership, not only to bishops but to priests, principles, administrators, and teachers in all settings, even as the work of protection and healing belong to all in the church. Accountability, Healing, and Trust joins a number of recent volumes that, together, show us how to bridge the work of church and academy and, still together, disrupt patterns of vulnerability and promote the flourishing of all."" John N. Sheveland, Professor of Religious Studies, Gonzaga University, editor of Theology in a Post-Traumatic Church

Author Information

Kimberly Hope Belcher is associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, in liturgical studies. She uses sacramental and liturgical theology and ritual theory to study Christian worship. Her current research explores the potential of ritual for healing trauma and social crisis in pluralistic societies. Her related publications include “Remembering the Dead, Reconciling the Living: George Floyd and All Souls’ Day” (Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2024), “Ritual Techniques in Affliction Rites and the Lutheran-Catholic ecumenical Liturgy of Lund, 2016” (Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2022), and the guest edited issue “Sacramental and Liturgical Theology of Healing and Crisis Rites” of Religions (2022). David A. Clairmont teaches in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on comparative religious ethics, particularly the moral thought of Roman Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism, professional ethics (particularly in business contexts), and the connection between ethics and spirituality.

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