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Artwork for Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church

Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church

The Catholic Project

A series about the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church: its origins, characters, causes, and reforms. Host Karna Lozoya interviews bishops, survivors, reporters, lawyers, social workers, and many more, to help navigate a systemic problem that has plagued the modern church for at least 70 years.

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Artwork for Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church

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In this episode, Karna Lozoya speaks with Stephen White, Executive Director of The Catholic Project at Catholic University, one of the creators of this podcast, and Ed Condon, editor at the Catholic News Agency, about the newly-released report from t... more

An issue this podcast keeps returning to is bishops' accountability. Are the reforms of Vos estis lux mundi being applied in the US Church? This episode features Cardinal Timothy Dolan, reporters Harriet Ryan of the L.A. Times and Christopher Altieri... more

The story of clergy sex abuse is a hard one to tell. Catholics face the difficult task of incorporating what has happened into their understanding of the Church that they love. This episode features J.D. Flynn, Tom Doyle, Mar Munoz-Visoso, and James ... more

Since 2002, being a priest has lost much of its public respect and stature. How have priests experienced the ongoing crisis? And how has seminary formation changed in view of the revelations about sexual abuse? This episode includes Cardinal Timothy ... more

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 447 ratings
  • Disappointing.

    The first couple of episodes were decent, but by episode 3, I realized I won’t be continuing. It’s clear that the people being interviewed have little understanding of what actually drives child abuse. The suggestion that abusers just “need to become fathers” or that removing the celibacy requirement for priests would reduce abuse is both uninformed and irresponsible. Abuse is not about unmet sexual desire—it’s about power, control, and the dehumanization of victims. These kinds of narratives on... more

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    Dani Marie Mac
    United States6 months ago
  • Please listen.

    Painful but necessary. Thank you, this is so well done.

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    steinernatalie
    Canadaa year ago
  • A podcast by Catholics to look transparent??

    This is not what I thought it would be. It seems to focus a lot on “how badly the church felt” and not on the victim’s war torn lives.

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    lillimay5
    United States3 years ago
  • I Recommend absolutely

    Very informative and interesting. Addresses a lot of issues related to this drama. . .

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    pépé Rammelo
    Canada3 years ago
  • Eye opening and informative

    I am an ex-Catholic that was disgusted by the scandal that the Roman Catholic Church underwent. It was interesting to hear the stories of victims, the processes of how the oversight was created for Priests and the changes for Bishops were also made. It covers the history of Mcgarrick, early priest scandals and the processes that have been put into place. I was quite impressed with the production. It leaves very few details out of the work, and it was an intellectual and honest story of the o... more

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    5
    titaniummd
    United States4 years ago

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