NCR Today - A thousand suggestions and hints feed the presumption that clergy are set apart and above the laity. Stopping it seems to me the major objective if abuse is to end.
Strategies implemented since 2002 are working to prevent abuse, says Thomas Plante, past member of the National Review Board, and now is the time to plug any holes in child protection policies.
Two dioceses are under scrutiny following a series of online allegations that include illicit sexual behavior and alcohol abuse among seminarians and by those overseeing their development.
