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Abuse survivors deeply troubled by Cardinal Fernández’s resurfaced book on sex and orgasms
Gina Christian - OSV News January 22, 2024 The cover of "Mystical passion: Spirituality and Sensuality" and an image of Cardinal Víctor...


Survivor: Abuse should be seriously addressed by the synod, or not at all
by Paulina Guzik October 9, 2023 Advocates of zero tolerence for clergy sexual abuse including Peter Isely, right, Tim Law, and Denise...


Catholic University To Honor Prominent Advocate For Abuse Survivors
By Lauretta Brown March 20, 2024 Abuse survivor Teresa Pitt Green of Spirit Fire, a Christian restorative justice initiative founded by...
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Abuse survivors deeply troubled by Cardinal Fernández’s resurfaced book on sex and orgasms
Gina Christian - OSV News January 22, 2024 The cover of "Mystical passion: Spirituality and Sensuality" and an image of Cardinal Víctor...
Survivor: Abuse should be seriously addressed by the synod, or not at all
by Paulina Guzik October 9, 2023 Advocates of zero tolerence for clergy sexual abuse including Peter Isely, right, Tim Law, and Denise...
Catholic University To Honor Prominent Advocate For Abuse Survivors
By Lauretta Brown March 20, 2024 Abuse survivor Teresa Pitt Green of Spirit Fire, a Christian restorative justice initiative founded by...
Clergy abuse: Priests are the antidote
By Teresa Pitt Green, OSV News My work with clergy is a long way from the old days. Then, when I spotted a Roman collar on a random...
Hope In A Wounded Church
By Teresa Pitt Green May 15, 2024 Most Catholics experience the crisis of sexual abuse by clergy in relation to headlines, as stories...
Strength-Based Leaders: An Affirming and Successful Approach for Supporting Victims’ Recovery and New Life
Introduction to the strength-based approach currently being used in the majority of human-trafficking victims’ programs and now gaining...
First Encounter: What Do Liberated Victims First Encounter in Victim Services?
The Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force Newsletter (June 15, 2017). Scenarios for how freed victims of human trafficking in...
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Abuse survivors deeply troubled by Cardinal Fernández’s resurfaced book on sex and orgasms
Gina Christian - OSV News January 22, 2024 The cover of "Mystical passion: Spirituality and Sensuality" and an image of Cardinal Víctor...
Survivor: Abuse should be seriously addressed by the synod, or not at all
by Paulina Guzik October 9, 2023 Advocates of zero tolerence for clergy sexual abuse including Peter Isely, right, Tim Law, and Denise...
Catholic University To Honor Prominent Advocate For Abuse Survivors
By Lauretta Brown March 20, 2024 Abuse survivor Teresa Pitt Green of Spirit Fire, a Christian restorative justice initiative founded by...
Clergy Abuse: You Are The Antidote
By Teresa Pitt Green May 26, 2024 OSV News Each time another scandal related to sexual abuse erupts in the Roman Catholic Church, I find...
Clergy abuse: Priests are the antidote
By Teresa Pitt Green, OSV News My work with clergy is a long way from the old days. Then, when I spotted a Roman collar on a random...
Hope In A Wounded Church
By Teresa Pitt Green May 15, 2024 Most Catholics experience the crisis of sexual abuse by clergy in relation to headlines, as stories...
Strength-Based Leaders: An Affirming and Successful Approach for Supporting Victims’ Recovery and New Life
Introduction to the strength-based approach currently being used in the majority of human-trafficking victims’ programs and now gaining...
First Encounter: What Do Liberated Victims First Encounter in Victim Services?
The Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force Newsletter (June 15, 2017). Scenarios for how freed victims of human trafficking in...
Open Letter to Victim Assistance Coordinators
Sent on November 2015. A note of gratitude and encouragement in the season of Advent. This is a brief Advent reflection in gratitude for...
My Conversion Story
Our Sunday Visitor (March 2015). In a series of stories about conversion, my story of returning to the faith was included My conversion...
Why Consider Returning to a Faith that Betrayed Us?
Healing, Learning and Growing (Archdiocese of Chicago newsletter) 4, no 2 (November 2014). A gentle suggestion why returning to...
Blessed
Catholic Social Workers National Association newsletter (February 2014). For social workers, a reflection about being able to integrate...
Good Friday for Survivors of Abuse
Posted on Arlington Diocese Victim Assistance Website in Spanish and English. April 31, 2012. Good Friday can be a difficult day for men...
Making Distinctions
Adapted from first pub in) Healing, Learning and Growing (Archdiocese of Chicago newsletter) 1, no 4 (November 2011). MOST REPRINTED...
Homecoming
The Arlington Herald (approx. June 2010). Reprinted insidecatholic.com and catholicity.com . What is the homecoming like? Why? How?...
Survivor Reflection: Safe, Alone in a Chapel
Ibid. (approx. August 2009). A reflection on the unexpected experience of feeling safe in a Catholic chapel during a retreat for...
A Different Kind of Bishop
Ibid. (approx. 2008). A brief snapshot of a bishop’s presence in a survivor’s early exploration of a deeper commitment to faith. When...
Making Distinctions after the Trauma of Child Sexual Abuse
First published in Orthodoxy in Dialogue, Feb 4, 2018 We unlearn what abusers teach, using lies to groom us and authority to confuse us...
Many Wounds, One Savior
First published in Orthodoxy in Dialogue, Jan 17, 2018 Republished in The Healing Voices Magazine, Jan 24, 2018 The Church bears the...
Intervention for My Generation: Digital Work Opportunities
My business was wholly virtual before being virtual was cool, and it’s likely where you work is already at least partially virtual....
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