Monthly Archives: December 2013

treating the victim like a criminal, love, justice, abuse survivors.


“They were treating the victim like a criminal,” she said. “It was really like living in hell. If it hadn’t happened to me—if someone else told me this story—I’d think it wasn’t true.” That is a quote from the mother … Continue reading

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When a man is ordained for the deaconate he promises then and there that he will be celibate, (not marry). The Catholic Church teaches that people, men or women, who are not married are not allowed to engage in any sexual activity.


After many years of fighting this terrible sacrilege known as clergy sex abuse I was beginning to weary and then something like the story in the Los Angeles Times about how intricately Roger Cardinal Mahoney was involved in the cover-up … Continue reading

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