Of Course Church Will Hurt Us: When Abuse Isn't Personal

Examining the Traumatic Church Discourse, Part Four

In this, the fourth installment examining the recent rise of traumatic church discourse, we take a look at one of the big questions that’s been raised:

What about abuse that happens, but isn’t a matter of active intent?

The Importance of Intention: Ground Zero of the Moral Life

Since the first major wave of stories about abuse in the Catholic Church bega…