PENNSYLVANIA
Penn Live
May 31, 2018
By Ivey DeJesus
Comedy comes from the darkest places.
Turns out that somewhere between the enduring trauma of having been sexually abused as a child by a priest and their fight for legislative reform to laws that would permit them legal recourse, victims of clergy sex abuse can make some light of their experience.
Just weeks away from the release of the findings of a grand jury investigation into child sex abuse across Pennsylvania’s Catholic communities, three survivors of clergy sex abuse have collaborated to produce a game that takes a light-hearted approach to the topic.
The game is called Bishop’s Response Bingo, and, as the name suggests, the game is built around the concept of the bingo strategy: Each of the slots in the 25-square grid offers a possible response from a church bishop to the findings of the investigation.
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