Even if the Church implemented safeguards it wouldn’t be enough. That’s because the Catholic clergy’s sexual crimes against children are a consequence, not a cause, of the church’s criminality.
Angela Bonavoglia
Angela Bonavoglia is the author of Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church and The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (foreword by Gloria Steinem). Former Ms. contributing editor, Bonavoglia’s work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Salon
Cosmopolitan, Newsday, The National Catholic Reporter, and more. For more, go to: www.angelabonavoglia.com