{"id":925,"date":"2014-02-01T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/02\/churches-confront-sexual-violence.html"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:47:00","slug":"churches-confront-sexual-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/02\/churches-confront-sexual-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Churches Confront Sexual Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It\u2019s a scourge as old as the ages, yet sexual violence against women and children is fresh in the headlines as President Obama launches an initiative to address sexual assaults on college campuses, while the military tries to fix its own problem and newly released documents shed galling light on the Catholic Church\u2019s pattern of abuse and coverup in the Chicago diocese.\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>As the priests\u2019 crimes remind us, religious institutions, at their worst, have often proved complicit and sometimes out-and-out guilty when it comes to sexual advances against vulnerable people. As real as that problem is, however, there\u2019s a counterstory emerging that could redeem religion\u2019s role in this ugly dynamic:\u00a0 <\/span>

<\/span>Faith organizations are beginning to address sexual abuse with a new energy and earnestness \u2014 a welcome step toward the fulfillment of their enormous potential to do good on this front.<\/span>

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