Abuse Quote by Anthea Butler

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here…

— William P. Leahy

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

— William P. Leahy

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

— John Sentamu

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the…

— Pope Francis

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are…

— Alex Gibney

“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern…

— John G. Stackhouse Jr

The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is…

— Gerald Vann

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

— Shane Claiborne

But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The Christian family is under attack on all fronts. Christian marriages are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Children are not receiving the proper training…

— Jim George

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick