‘After taking literal millions of steps, I’m one step closer to this goal,’ said Gemma Hickey
WARNING: This story contains details of child physical and sexual abuse.
A St. John’s activist and survivor of sexual abuse by clergy is set to deliver a lecture to one of the Catholic Church’s most prestigious universities, with a message of demanding justice for other survivors.
Gemma Hickey, president of advocacy group Ending Clergy Abuse, will speak at the Pontifical Gregorian University this week. The school has deep ties to the Vatican and trains Catholic clergy from around the world.
Hickey’s lecture, which they’ve titled Zero Tolerance: Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, will provide a Newfoundland and Labrador focus on themes of clericalism, colonialism and the aspects of a zero-tolerance policy for abuse by clergy.
“There’s a lot riding on this lecture, but what I’m hoping and what my colleagues and I are hoping is that we go back…
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