Shame
Abuse in the Catholic Church

A crisis cannot be resolved without delving deep enough into it to understand it. The scandal of abuse within the Church – of power, of conscience, and sexual – has reached a global scale and accounts not only for individual sins and crimes but above all for paradigms, systems, structures, and institutions that have facilitated the commission of abuse, its concealment, or impunity. This volume includes the testimony of victims and the reflections of numerous specialists. From fields as diverse as theology, psychiatry, psychology, history, law, and education, the situation of abuse in the Chilean Catholic Church is addressed. It is a painful and shameful journey, but there will be no healing outside of it.