This week, Paul and Dominic talk with Dr. Bernard Prusak. They discuss an up-and-coming article (being published later this year by Liturgical Press) that Bernard wrote about Institutional Vice and the coverup of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Using the story of the disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick as an example, Bernard’s article attempts to explain how otherwise good people can act differently, sometimes dramatically different, as a part of the organization vs. when they are acting in their personal lives.
Dr. Bernard Prusak holds the Raymond and Eleanor Smiley Chair in Business Ethics at John
Carroll University. He was formerly Professor of Philosophy and Director of the McGowan
Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His
books include Catholic Moral Philosophy in Practice and Theory: An Introduction and Catholic Higher Education and Catholic Social Thought.
LINKS
Who Knew? The sexual-abuse crisis and ‘epistemic injustice’
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/mccarrick-sex-abuse-church-catholic
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