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Open Letter to Victim Assistance Coordinators

Sent on November 2015. A note of gratitude and encouragement in the season of Advent.


This is a brief Advent reflection in gratitude for your work for survivors of abuse by clergy. Little seems to be said about the good work of women and men who, like yourself, are committed victim assistance coordinators, or survivor ministers.


People outside Catholic circles are unaware of reforms the Church has been advancing to right its wrongs, so it’s no surprise they have no idea of your role in the healing underway in various places in our Church. A bit surprising is how many Catholics are unaware, too. I wonder if, among those Catholics who do know of something of the reforms, you like I encounter intellectual rebuttal where evil has cast its shadow. I avoid those debates, having staked my recovery, indeed my life, on the Cross as the only antidote to the impact of evil has had on me.


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