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2018-09-08T22:20:48-04:00

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Abuse and Alienation: In The Church, Away From Yourself

Last updated on: September 8, 2018 at 10:20 pm By Guest Contributor

In brief, when your church is the center of your community’s social life—whether in a rural village or an urban enclave—being alienated from it (even when you’re still participating in it) makes it much more difficult to define yourself, whether by or against—or outside—of it. Read more

2018-08-31T13:30:45-04:00

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Forgiveness Is Not Enough, When It Comes To Healing For Victims

Last updated on: August 31, 2018 at 1:30 pm By Guest Contributor

While “forgiveness” of “sins” might give the perpetrator a clean slate, it does nothing to alleviate trauma and its effects in victims. If anything, asking (or, more precisely, guilt-tripping) a victim to “forgive” a perpetrator only re-traumatizes that victim. Read more

2018-08-30T12:59:05-04:00

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Victims Have the Right To Be Heard – Whenever They Are Ready

Last updated on: August 30, 2018 at 12:59 pm By Guest Contributor

Given the repressive conditions I’ve described—one in which authority is not questioned, church leaders have absolute authority and children do not learn about their own bodies, let alone how they can be used against them—is it any wonder that most victims don’t recount their abuse by priests to anyone but themselves—if, indeed, they ever do—until they are well into adulthood? Read more

Pennsylvania grand jury report

2018-08-29T10:47:28-04:00

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A Good Reason for Suspending Judgment on The Accusation Against Francis

Last updated on: August 29, 2018 at 10:47 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

On the basis of the evidence of past action, it does not seem to me that the far-right tabloid crowd has any interest whatsoever in defending victims, while it is quite heavily invested in undermining the pope. Read more

Franciscan University

2018-08-22T23:45:23-04:00

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Am I My Church’s Keeper? A Laywoman Ponders Her Responsibility

Last updated on: August 22, 2018 at 11:45 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Above all, though, I feel that I have spent my life as a Catholic with my hands bound, with heavy burdens placed upon me, and now when I am bent and exhausted asked to join in the rescue of those who bound my hands, and laid the burdens on me. Read more

2018-08-19T00:33:15-04:00

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Is It Really The Church That I Care About?

Last updated on: August 19, 2018 at 12:33 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

To give up because “it’s all in God’s hands” is a kind of nihilistic rejection of the good and profound meaning of this earth, this life, these living bodies - and our moral obligation to be instruments of peace, love, and liberation. Read more

2018-08-16T19:39:03-04:00

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Yes, There Is An Institutional Problem: Power

Last updated on: August 16, 2018 at 7:39 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

The problem is power. Any concentration of power in a single demographic will lead ultimately to injustice and abuse. If women held absolute authority, we'd probably become predatory, too. Read more

clerical abuse scandal

2018-08-14T00:06:00-04:00

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On The Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal, Scapegoating, and Justice

Last updated on: August 14, 2018 at 12:06 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

It’s important to distinguish between scapegoating and the pursuit of justice, and not to try to quell the latter out of fear of the former. Similarly, it’s important not to condemn the legitimate and honorable rage or pain that many are feeling now, as though it were on a par with the hysteria of a violently scapegoating community Read more

2018-07-28T00:04:43-04:00

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I Spent NFP Awareness Week In Conversation With Questioners

Last updated on: July 28, 2018 at 12:04 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s social teachings, and frequently misrepresent the church’s fundamental moral definitions in order to show how hardass they are, there is a taboo on questioning the teaching on contraception, in any way. Read more

2018-07-23T14:23:38-04:00

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Of Blackberries, Summer, and the Frailty of Time

Last updated on: July 23, 2018 at 2:23 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Time is, we know from philosophy, theology, and physics, something of an illusion. This is both a terror and a comfort. The fools and liars will always be with us. The fools and liars will always be gone Read more

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