RE: Catholic abuse investigations expand.
September 11, 2018 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2018 at 1:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:As much as the abuse she documented in her 2005 complaint pained her, Emily says she was “absolutely devastated” by what followed. “I was shut out of the process, treated like a bother by UUA staff, silenced and asked to protect the minister, and ultimately not told the findings of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee, the credentialing body for UU ministers,” Emily told trustees and top UUA staff earlier this year. “I remember hearing the words ‘closed door tribunal’ to describe what was happening in the [Roman] Catholic Church, and I remember that resonating.” She has not joined a church since.
INB4 "Just a few cases" and "The odd minister here and there".
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