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After the Sex-Abuse Scandal?

What Lies Ahead?

Sidney Callahan | John C. Cavadini | Donald Cozzens

Donald Cozzens Many hope that the worst of the sexual-abuse crisis is over. Frankly, I fear the worst is yet to come. Consider the battered church of Boston and the not-guilty plea entered on June 11 by accused priest Paul Shanley, who claims he was himself abused by a seminary professor and by a predecessor of his current archbishop. Shanley is likely to put up a strenuous def (...)


 

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Sidney Callahan is a psychologist and the author of Created for Joy: A Christian View of Suffering.

about the writer

John C. Cavadini teaches in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also McGrath-Cavadini director of the Institute for Church Life.

about the writer

The Reverend Donald Cozzens teaches religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest’s Crisis of Soul (Liturgical Press) and Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church (Liturgical Press).

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