Churches and Abuse
I hear advocates of the Church struggle with this most recently revealed, most appalling violation of all trust and faith in the representatives of their God. Some of them are trying to sell the idea that if there is no penetration, it isn't rape, it isn't as bad as rape. But it is rape: of the spirit, the innocence, the entire future life of the victim. It is the profundest corruption of power to victimize the young and the trusting, the faithful. That the administration of the Church has... Sign in to see full entry.