2023/4: Abuses in the Church

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Edited by Michelle Becka, Po-Ho Huang and Gianluca Montaldi

Part One: Foundations

Clerical Sexual Abuse Revisited

HILLE HAKER

Part Two: Starting with the victims. Narratives of suffering and resistance and their theological relevance

Listen to the Victims! The Theological Relevance of Telling the Story of Abuse of Adult Women in the Catholic Church

UTE LEIMGRUBER

The silence over abuse in Italy: between silence, re-victimisation and the search for justice

FEDERICA TOURN and LUDOVICA EUGENIO

Discipline, Obedience and Abuse in the Sodalitium

ROCÍO FIGUEROA ALVEAR and DAVID TOMBS

The CIASE report in the French Church

MARIE-JO THIEL

The Victims of Abuse in Ecclesiastical Contexts as a Theological Place. Moving from Silence and Concealment to Words and Recognition

MARÍA SOLEDAD DEL VILLAR TAGLE

Examples of institutional violence

MŪMBI KÌGŪTHA CPPS

Part Three: Systematic Approaches

Ecclesiastical Elitism and the Church’s Ambivalent Theology of Temporalities

RHODERICK JOHN S. ABELLANOSA

Spiritual Abuse: Definition, Forms and Preconditions

DORIS LYDIA FRIEDERIKE REISINGER

When Spiritual Power Destroys Life. Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

VIRGINIA SALDANHA

What does it mean to Come to Terms with Abuse? Some Suggestions

HANS ZOLLNER SJ

Part Four: Theological Forum

Human Rights and the Art of Listening. A Critical Defense of Universalism

HEINER BIELEFELDT

Human Rights at 75: Time for Reappraisal

HUANG PO HO

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