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A Tragic Grace: The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse Paperback – January 1, 1996

by Stephen J. Rossetti (Author)
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A Tragic Grace is a direct, honest look at a difficult subject: child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church. It includes the latest pastoral and psychological insights coupled with the author's original research. It documents this "sustained crisis" in the Church and offers concrete suggestions on how to understand and deal with the subject. Most importantly, A Tragic Grace offers a vision of hope. Within the seeds of this tragedy, the author sees the possibility of a stronger, more open, and accountable Church emerging.
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  1. Print length
    126 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Liturgical Pr
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1996
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0814624340
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0814624340
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Child sexual abuse is a difficult subject. Its implications are devastating and beg for new ways of confronting and understanding this problem, as well as offering support to its victims. A Tragic Grace provides a direct, honest look at child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church. It documents this "sustained crisis" in the Church and offers concrete suggestions on how to deal with the subject. Through the latest pastoral and psychological insights, coupled with his original research, Father Rossetti responds to the Church's actions (or lack of action) and offers new ways of responding to and preventing child sexual abuse. In the past, the Church acknowledged cases of child sexual abuse by clergy, but was unaware that a great deal more needed to be done about it. Much of its malfeasance in responding to these cases was a result of ignorance, not maliciousness. Since then, the Church has been challenged to take a proactive stance toward child sexual abuse?to hear on a different level, to see with a new clarity. It is through this process that the Church now understands what the real challenge is: regaining the trust of all those affected by child sexual abuse. Father Rossetti shows in A Tragic Grace that responding properly to incidents of child sexual abuse presupposes an awareness of the pervasiveness of child sexual abuse, a realization of the trauma it causes victims, a recognition of the mental illness that afflicts perpetrators, and a sensitivity to the signs of child sexual abuse. The insights contained in A Tragic Grace are simple ones. Indeed, after reading this book, one's first thought might be "these are obvious things." Unfortunately, reality suggests that they are not. The lessons offered here are the hard lessons of many years of mistakes. Mistakes made again and again by diocese after diocese, religious order after religious order, one country after the next. Fortunately, imbedded within the tragedy and realities of this problem is a message of hope and, possibly, even a story of human greatness. Through a slow awakening, A Tragic Grace shows that the Church is learning, the world is learning?the word is getting out. There are many actions to remember, but the real message calls for a change of heart. Within the seeds of the tragedy of child sexual abuse, the author sees the possibility of a stronger, more open, and accountable Church emerging. He urges us not to enter the road to conversion thinking we know where it will lead, because we do not. We simply trust that, wherever it leads, we will be blessed for the journey and stronger than when we began. A Tragic Grace helps us enter this journey with confidence, trying not to cling too hard to former notions and ways of thinking, but to hope for the future that something new, something better is ahead. Chapters are "A Slow Awakening," "A Wounded Church," "Parishes as Victims of Child Sexual Abuse," "Red Flags for Child Sexual Abuse," "Suicides of Priests and the Crisis of Faith," "A Conversion of Perspective," and "Silver Lining in a Dark Cloud."

About the Author

Fr. Stephen Rossetti, Ph.D., is the executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the Saint Luke Institute, Inc., Suitland, Maryland.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liturgical Pr (January 1, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 126 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0814624340
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0814624340
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
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Rossetti outlines the destructive impact of clergy abuse on the victim, the institutional church, and the parish community. As the Executive Vice-President and COO of St. Luke Institute, one of the main US Roman Catholic clergy psychiatric facilities, the author could have provided invaluable first-hand accounts of dealing with the church hierarchy's handling of clergy who abuse, including reassignment, failure to report the abuse to civil law enforcement authorities and failure to be forthright to parish communities who may have an abuser in their midst. Missing from the book is carefully developed insight concerning how organizations like St. Luke Institute treat clergy offenders and how impact of the abuse on victim(s) is incorporated in the treatment and how the victim/s and parish community is prepared for the clergy abuser's release from treatment. The author stands in a position of knowing directly how the archbishops and bishops respond to victims both in terms of compassion and justice and inclusion of information on those experiences would have been insightful. Additional insight into how offending clergy are monitored upon release from institutions like St. Luke Institute would have been a relevant chapter in the book.
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