One who sees himself as nothing becomes something when spiritual men say it to him. No one approaches the divine glory by his own power. The divine glory pulls him in and if a person approaches it, he feels that he is nothing and he remains effaced in his own eyes until the Day of […]

THIS YEAR MARKS the fifth anniversary of The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of clergy sexual abuse. The Pulitzer citation praised the Globe for its ”courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national, and international reaction and produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church.” Yet while the […]

Long after the Bishop Raymond Lahey scandal fades from the front pages, the victims of images of child sex abuse distributed over the Internet will continue to suffer, says a Halifax expert on adolescent mental health. ”It’s not a victimless crime,” said Dalhousie University psychiatry professor Stanley Kutcher. ”Most of (internet child pornography) is young […]

In July 2009 at the Antiochian 49th Annual  Archdiocesan Convention, Metropolitan Philip spoke in defense of Bishop Demetri Matta Khoury. +Demetri is a convicted felon and registered sex offender whom the Antiochian Archdiocese continues to fund, thereby enabling him to remain in a position of trust. In the heated discussions which have erupted on this […]

Abuse survivor uses OC Diocese settlement monies to launch nationwide awareness campaign. An Orange County sex abuse survivor has launched a new national nonprofit organization, using the money she received in a 2007 child sex abuse settlement against the Diocese of Orange. Elaina J. Kroll, founder and CEO of The Innocence Mission, realized that even […]

Credibility in court is the degree to which the Judge or jurors believe a witness. For a testifying officer to be effective, she must be found credible. In several past articles (web links below), we’ve looked at different aspects of courtroom credibility for the testifying officer. This month, we’re going to look at how vivid […]

Religious leadership has always had a prominent place in human society. However prominence easily leads to pretension which gives birth to hypocrisy and pomposity. Our Lord Jesus warned against such leadership. ”And in his teaching Jesus said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and to have salutations in the […]

The Washington Post ran a story the other day that was quite scary, if you care about the institutional church. The only problem I had with the story is that it wasn’t scary enough and, in particular, it wasn’t hard enough on one of the fastest growing forms of Protestantism in the nation (and the […]

WHEATON, MD. – According to FBI statistics, at least one woman is raped every six minutes in the United States. Including all forms of sexual assault, an estimated 24 to 54 percent of American women are attacked in their lifetime, with anywhere from a fourth to a third experiencing assaults that meet or closely resemble […]

Misconduct More Common Than Previously Thought; Occurs Across Many Religions and Denominations WACO, Texas — Baylor University’s School of Social Work today announced that findings from the nationwide study of the prevalence of Clergy Sexual Misconduct (CSM) with adults have been accepted for publication later this year in the Journal for the Scientific Study of […]