'The Church of the abuse scandal is the only Church we know'
UNITED STATES
La Croix International
May 21, 2019
By Massimo Faggioli
University students in the United States offer fresh insights into the clergy sex abuse crisis
St. Augustine is quoted as saying that "one learns by teaching" — docendo discitur. This has never been more true for me than during this past semester when I taught an undergraduate university course on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
My class included 30 students aged 21-22, mostly from the United States. There was a mixture of males and females majoring in a variety of fields, from biology to political sciences. Most of them were Catholics, but there was a substantial minority of non-Catholics and even non-Christians. Almost all of them admitted to wrestling with the "God question" as well as the meaning of the Church.
I learned much while preparing my lectures, mainly from reading scholarly materials that integrated and systematized our knowledge of the various aspects of the abuse crisis from a historical and theological point of view.
La Croix International
May 21, 2019
By Massimo Faggioli
University students in the United States offer fresh insights into the clergy sex abuse crisis
St. Augustine is quoted as saying that "one learns by teaching" — docendo discitur. This has never been more true for me than during this past semester when I taught an undergraduate university course on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
My class included 30 students aged 21-22, mostly from the United States. There was a mixture of males and females majoring in a variety of fields, from biology to political sciences. Most of them were Catholics, but there was a substantial minority of non-Catholics and even non-Christians. Almost all of them admitted to wrestling with the "God question" as well as the meaning of the Church.
I learned much while preparing my lectures, mainly from reading scholarly materials that integrated and systematized our knowledge of the various aspects of the abuse crisis from a historical and theological point of view.
No comments:
Post a Comment