scholarly journals Actions of the American Catholic Bishops for the benefi t of victims of sexual abuse by clergy Guidelines of the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1(27)) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kłos - Skrzypczak
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Bishops

The American Catholic Church for more than two decades faced with a crisis through in connection with the sexual abuse of minors. The article presents the actions of American bishops for victims of sexual abuse by clergy in both preventive and preventive care. The first part presents the functioning of the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, then discusses the most important, recently published documents relating to the sexual abuse of minors.

scholarly journals Działania amerykańskich biskupów katolickich na rzecz ofiar wykorzystywania seksualnego przez duchownych. Wytyczne Komisji do spraw Ochrony Dzieci i Młodzieży

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1(27)) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
ALEKSANDRA KŁOS-SKRZYPCZAK
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church

The American Catholic Church for more than two decades faced with a crisis through in connection with the sexual abuse of minors. The article presents the actions of American bishops for victims of sexual abuse by clergy in both preventive and preventive care. The fi rst part presents the functioning of the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, then discusses the most important, recently published documents relating to the sexual abuse of minors.

Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church by Tricia Colleen Bruce

2018 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
William A. Clark ◽  
Tia Noelle Pratt ◽  
John Francis Burke
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Place Making ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church

“Overcoming the Divisiveness of Babel”: The Languages of Catholicity

Horizons ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Patient Understanding ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church

AbstractContemporary issues in the American Catholic Church can sound like a modern-day confusion of tongues making communication impossible. Furthermore, the traditional marks of the Church have supported the notion that dissent and controversy are to be discouraged. This article examines catholicity and shows that its definitions and uses in history have tied it to uniformity when its essential characteristic may well be the celebration of pluralism. Catholicity is placed in the context of modern mission theory in such a way that current challenges can be interpreted as so many new languages which require patient understanding.

scholarly journals Victims of sexual abuse by catholic clerics and their needs for compensation

Temida ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Legal Punishment ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse

Crime victims hold several expectations regarding the compensation of the harm done to them. In this regard, it is important to distinguish between material (e.g. financial) and immaterial (e.g. emotional support) needs and forms of compensation. To explore the matching between desired and actually awarded compensation, data of a survey with N=104 victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clerics were analysed. Data analyses revealed that the respondents most often required an apology and reparation by the Catholic Church followed by wishes for financial redress. Those were in turn the needs most frequently met. The majority of the victims also desired an apology and reparation by the offender, legal punishment for the offender, and therapeutic help for themselves. However, these forms of compensation were only scarcely provided. Taking into account further victimological research, findings are discussed against the background of restorative justice.

John F. O. Fernandez: Enlightened Lay Catholic Reformer, 1815–1820

1981 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church

The American republican form of government and the effects of the Enlightenment upon the European Catholic church provided fertile ground for theological reflection and ecclesiastical adaptation in early nineteenth-century American Catholicism. A number of immigrant Catholic laymen were influenced by their previous European Catholic experiences and by the American enthusiasm for republicanism to reform their understanding of the laity's role in the American Catholic church and to adapt ecclesiastical structures to American political institutions. In light of these experiences, some of these laymen began to reflect upon the Christian Scriptures and tradition, and to formulate a democratic conception of the layman's role within the church.

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Religious Cold War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Post War ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
American Catholic Church

Despite Hoover's efforts to develop an alliance with the American Catholic Church, other Christian communities came under suspicion during the Cold War. This chapter by Dianne Kirby examines the surveillance of communities during the Cold War period that had transatlantic links and supported the continuation of the alliance with the Soviet Union or developed other contacts beyond the Iron Curtain. Her case studies include surveillance of the Russian Orthodox Church in America, which in the course of the war sought to transfer allegiance to the Moscow Patriarchate, a move that was stymied in the post-war period by deteriorating US-Soviet relations and Roman Catholic opposition.

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