Resources

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has a web page of resources related to “Child and Youth Protection” (including a link to the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People”):

America magazine has a collection of links to articles on the sexual abuse crisis:

America has also sponsored a series of twelve podcasts called “Deliver Us” on various topics related to the crisis:

The following video of a panel sponsored by Lumen Christi Institute in Chicago includes a helpful brief summary of the history of the crisis in the U.S. by Kim Daniels:

“What caused the crisis? Key findings of the John Jay College study on clergy sexual abuse,” by Kathleen McChesney, America magazine, 6 June 2011:

Report and related materials on the PA attorney general’s website:

Peter Steinfels wrote an important critique of the Pennsylvania grand jury report for Commonweal:

“Confronting a Moral Catastrophe: Lay Leadership, Catholic Social Teaching, and the Sexual Abuse Crisis”. Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. Video of 25 September 2018 event:

FutureChurch seeks “changes that will provide all Roman Catholics the opportunity to participate fully in Church life and leadership.” Among the many resources on their website is the 2019 teleconference series: “Power to the People: From Clericalism to Collaboration.”

Leadership Roundtable is an “organization of laity, religious, and clergy working together to promote best practices and accountability in the management, finances, communications, and human resources development of the Catholic Church in the U.S., including greater incorporation of the expertise of the laity.”

The Movement to Restore Trust is a group of Catholics based in Buffalo, NY, who seek to “assert the laity’s rightful role in the Church and to help lead a movement to restore trust and confidence in the Church.”

The Movement to Restore Trust released a 58-page report titled, “The Initial Reports of the Movement to Restore Trust Working Groups”:

Voice of the Faithful is a lay organization of Catholics organized in 2002. They seek to “provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the Spirit, through which the faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the Catholic Church.”