Does the Church, as the Body of Christ, offer a response to the sex abuse scandals?

You might ask, “Shouldn’t we all pretend to be Jesus?” We should, but that does not seem to have gotten most of us all that far. Perhaps a humbler role is a better beginning.

People must stop using gay people as scapegoats for the sexual abuse of children, two male survivors of abuse by priests told reporters.

“We all know that canon law has to be changed so that it stops protecting the priesthood of ordained men over the lives of children," Anne Barrett Doyle, the co-director of BishopAccountability.org, told reporters.

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