Or How I Came to Terms with My Own Abuse Became a Clergy Abuse Advocate and Started Walking across Oregon, The Garden of Roses, October 21, 2009

BishopAccountability.org

	Or How I Came to Terms with My Own Abuse, Became a Clergy Abuse Advocate, and Started Walking across Oregon The Garden of Roses October 21, 2009 http://web.me.com/virginiajones/Compsassionate_Gathering/The_Garden_of_Roses/The_Garden_of_Roses.html I started working on the clergy abuse scandal in the summer of 2002, about a year after my children and I were baptized Catholic. The priest who baptized us was removed when one of his survivors came forward. My parish was torn apart by grief and anger. Church leadership held several forums to help parishioners grieve and heal divisions. However, after six or seven weeks of forums, church staff responded to parishioner questions by saying, “We can’t talk about Father. We’ve moved beyond that...

Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.