Twelve Things the Bishops Have Learned From the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis. By Bishop Blase Cupich of Rapid City, South Dakota, chairman of the Committee for Child and Youth Protection for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. America magazine, May 10, 2010.
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- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Keeping our promise to protect: What has the Catholic Church done to effectively respond to sexual abuse by church personnel? (in PDF format)
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
- U.S. Bishops' Committee on Protection of Children and Young People
- Diocese of St. Augustine: Safe Environment Programs: Responding To Sexual Abuse; Reporting Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Misconduct In A Ministerial Relationship.
- Policy & Procedural Guidelines for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults
- Communications Policy with regards to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (in PDF format)
- Diocesan Background Screening Policy (in PDF format)
- Standards of Conduct for Clergy & Religious (in PDF format)
- Standards of Conduct for Lay Employees & Volunteers (in PDF format)
- How Could It Happen? Tracing the Causes of Sexual Abuse by the Clergy. By Rev. James Martin, S.J. The Huffington Post, March 26, 2010.
- It's Not About The Media: Blaming The Messenger In The Sex Abuse Crisis. By Rev. James Martin, S.J. The Huffington Post, April 1, 2010.
- The Catholic Church's Catastrophe: The press and the pope deserve credit for confronting scandal. By Peggy Noonan. The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2010.
- It's Not About Celibacy: Blaming the Wrong Thing for the Sexual Abuse Crisis.By Rev. James Martin, S.J. The Huffington Post, April 10, 2010.
- It's Not About Homosexuality: Blaming the Wrong People for the Sexual Abuse Crisis. By Rev. James Martin, S.J. The Huffington Post, April 14, 2010
- How to Save the Catholic Church: The Vatican badly needs new blood—and a woman's touch. By Peggy Noonan. The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2010.
- Five myths about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal. By David Gibson,The Washington Post, Sunday, April 18, 2010
- Self-examination: Catholic communicators look to address scandal. By John Thavis. Catholic News Service. VATICAN LETTER Apr-30-2010. Recommended by the Diocese of St. Augustine's website.
- Sin Inside the Church. By Rev. James Martin, S.J. The Huffington Post, May 12, 2010.
- Who’s Who in the Sex-Abuse Scandal? by The Catholic Register Staff, May 17, 2010
- AmericanCatholic.org: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse by Priests Archive.
- Catholic sex abuse cases. Wikipedia.
- Keep Your Eyes on Jesus: A Layman’s Guide to Surviving the Sex Scandals in the Catholic Church. By Greg Trainor, Catholic lay evangelist.
The Rev. James Martin, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, the culture editor of America magazine and author of numerous books, including The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything. He is also the author of My Life with the Saints (over 100,000 copies sold), which Publishers Weekly named one of the Best Books of 2006. Father Martin is a frequent commentator in the national and international media, and has appeared in such diverse venues as NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Fox TV’s The O’Reilly Factor, PBS’s The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, as well as in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, the History Channel, BBC and Vatican Radio. Before entering the Jesuits in 1988 he graduated from the Wharton School of Business and worked with General Electric for several years. He lives in New York City.
Peggy Noonan is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal whose work appears weekly in the Journal's Weekend Edition and on OpinionJournal.com. She is the author of eight books on American politics and culture. The most recent, "Patriotic Grace," was published in October 2008. Her first book, the bestseller "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era," was published in 1990. Her book “John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father,” was published by Viking in November, 2005. She was a special assistant to the president in the White House of Ronald Reagan. Before that she was a producer at CBS News in New York. In 1978 and 1979 she was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.
David Gibson
is the author of "The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his
Battle with the Modern World." He covers religion for PoliticsDaily.com.