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This is where the Catholic Church meets the most interesting and consequential issues of our time. Each episode explores a different topic through immersive stories told by America’s editors. “Church Meets World” is the best of our award-winning magazine content reimagined in podcast form. It’s not only what you read in our pages but how you hear it. Presented by Maggi Van Dorn and Sebastian Gomes.
What Catholics still don’t understand about the abuse crisis
Church Meets World: The America Magazine Podcast
39 minutes
4 years ago
What Catholics still don’t understand about the abuse crisis
Three years ago, a Pennsylvania Grand Jury report described in graphic detail the abuse of over 1,000 minors at the hands of more than 300 priests.
Then, Theodare McCarrick, an influential cardinal in the American Church, was found credibly accused of abusing minors and adult seminarians.
For survivors, the news was painful, yet validating. How did this second wave of scandal–the news of both abuse and cover up–affect the Catholic faithful more broadly? What do they
believe caused the crisis? Did the Grand Jury report and news about McCarrick impact their faith and affiliation with the Catholic Church?
Maggi Van Dorn, the host of the Deliver Us podcast, unpacks a new and ground-breaking survey conducted by America magazine and CARA in the latest episode of the “Church Meets World” podcast.
*Audio correction: Only 33 percent of respondents said their parish actually helped them process the sex abuse crisis. The word “percent” was mistakenly omitted from the original file.
Related articles:
Editorial: How you see the sexual abuse crisis
Three years after the 2018 ‘summer of shame,’ what do American Catholics think about the sex abuse crisis?
AWAKE Milwaukee
Related episodes from the Deliver Us podcast:
Episode 2: How’s Your Celibate Life Going?
What is the cause of the sexual abuse crisis? Does it happen more in the Catholic church than other institutions?
Episode 4: Are the reforms working?
How has the Catholic Church dealt with the abuse crisis?
Church Meets World: The America Magazine Podcast
This is where the Catholic Church meets the most interesting and consequential issues of our time. Each episode explores a different topic through immersive stories told by America’s editors. “Church Meets World” is the best of our award-winning magazine content reimagined in podcast form. It’s not only what you read in our pages but how you hear it. Presented by Maggi Van Dorn and Sebastian Gomes.
