Justice for Children: New Directions for Responding to the Catholic Clergy Abuse Crisis
A major oversight in Catholicism’s clergy abuse crisis is its failure to examine how assumptions about children and norms concerning adult-children interactions contributed to child sexual abuse and bishops’systematic cover-up. An adequate response must include new practices based on a revised child...
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| Published in: | Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 2020-09, Vol.40 (2), p.345-362 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | A major oversight in Catholicism’s clergy abuse crisis is its failure to examine how assumptions about children and norms concerning adult-children interactions contributed to child sexual abuse and bishops’systematic cover-up. An adequate response must include new practices based on a revised child-centered account of what constitutes justice for children. In this paper, I develop an account of justice drawing on four sources: 1) Margaret Farley’s account of justice; 2) research findings from my ethnographic study observing and interviewing Catholic second graders about receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation; 3) the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies; and 4) the Catholic tradition. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-7942 2326-2176 |